Mahikeng

city in North West, South Africa
Place town Q211055
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Mahikeng

Summary

Mahikeng is a town[1]. Mahikeng ranks in the top 4% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Mahikeng is located in Mahikeng Local Municipality[3].
  • Mahikeng is located in North West[4].
  • Mahikeng is in the country of South Africa[5].
  • Mahikeng's video is recorded as Google Timelapse- Mahikeng, South Africa.webm[6].
  • Mahikeng's image is recorded as Mafeking Obelisk.jpg[7].
  • Mahikeng's instance of is recorded as town[8].
  • Mahikeng's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 132550008[9].
  • Mahikeng's GND ID is recorded as 4658441-9[10].
  • Mahikeng's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n82135767[11].
  • Mahikeng's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n2013030278[12].
  • Mahikeng's postal code is recorded as 2745[13].
  • Mahikeng's Commons category is recorded as Mafikeng[14].
  • Mahikeng's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+02:00[15].
  • +1852-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Mahikeng[16].
  • Mahikeng's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': -25.865277777778, 'lon': 25.644166666667}[17].
  • Mahikeng's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c417[18].
  • Mahikeng's significant event is recorded as Siege of Mafeking[19].
  • Mahikeng's official website is recorded as https://mahikeng.gov.za[20].
  • Mahikeng's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Mahikeng[21].
  • Mahikeng's page banner is recorded as Mafikeng, North West, South Africa Wikivoyage Banner.jpg[22].
  • Mahikeng's MusicBrainz area ID is recorded as e398425a-2dd6-402e-9ef5-31393a0ff145[23].
  • Mahikeng's population is recorded as {'amount': '+15117'}[24].
  • Mahikeng's population is recorded as {'amount': '+49300'}[25].
  • Mahikeng's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[26].
  • Mahikeng's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[27].

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Geography

Mahikeng is in the country of South Africa[5]. Located in include Mahikeng Local Municipality[3], a local municipality of South Africa[28], in South Africa[29], founded in 2000[30] and North West[4], a province of South Africa[31], in South Africa[32], founded in 1994[33].

Physical Characteristics

Elevations include {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+1500'}[34] and {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+1284'}[35]. Population counts include {'amount': '+15117'}[24] and {'amount': '+49300'}[25].

Designation and Status

Mahikeng's instance of is recorded as town[8].

History and Context

+1852-01-01T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Mahikeng[16].

Why It Matters

Mahikeng ranks in the top 4% of town entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (152 views/month).[2] Mahikeng has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] Mahikeng is known by 23 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . Q1194038. wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] . Q1194038. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . South African Post Office. postoffice.co.za. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Q1194038. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Q14005. wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [34] . wikidata.org.
  27. [35] . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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