Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein is popularly and poetically known as "the city of roses", for its abundance of these flowers and the annual rose festival held there. The city hosts numerous museums, including the National Women's Monument, the Anglo-Boer War Museum, the National Museum, and the Oliewenhuis Art Museum.Photo: South African Tourism, CC BY 2.0.
Photo: Carla de Villiers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Toyota Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Graham Maclachlan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Free State Stadium, currently known as the Toyota Stadium for sponsorship reasons and formerly known as Vodacom Park, is a stadium in Bloemfontein, South Africa, used mainly for rugby union and also sometimes for association football.
Bloemfontein railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andre Kritzinger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bloemfontein central railway station is a railway station located in Bloemfontein, Free State Province, South Africa.
St. Andrew's School, Bloemfontein
School
St. Andrew's School, established in 1863 is a public school for boys located in Bloemfontein, Free State, South Africa.
Localities in the Area
Westdene
Suburb
Photo: Graham Maclachlan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Westdene is a suburb of the city of Bloemfontein in South Africa.
Bloemfontein
- Categories: capital city, big city and locality
- Location: Mangaung, Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-29.1164° or 29° 6' 59" southLongitude
26.2155° or 26° 12' 56" eastPopulation
370,000Elevation
1,396 metres (4,580 feet)IATA airport code
BFNUnited Nations Location Code
ZA BFNOpen Location Code
5G28V6M8+C5OpenStreetMap ID
node 26938845OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1018725Wikidata ID
Q37701Bloemfontein Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Bloemfontein
- Abkhazian: Блумфонтеин
- Afrikaans: Bloemfontein
- Albanian: Bloemfontein
- Amharic: ብሉምፎንቴይን
- Arabic: Bloemfontein
- Arabic: بلومفونتاين
- Arabic: بلومفونتين
- Arabic: بلويمفونتاين
- Armenian: Բլումֆոնթեյն
- Armenian: Բլումֆոնտեյն
- Arpitan: Bloemfontein
- Asturian: Bloemfontein
- Azerbaijani: Blumfonteyn
- Balinese: Bloemfontein
- Basque: Bloemfontein
- Basque: Mangaung
- Belarusian: Блумфантэйн
- Belarusian: Блюмфантэйн
- Bengali: ব্লুমফন্টেইন
- Bosnian: Bloemfontein
- Breton: Bloemfontein
- Bulgarian: Блумфонтейн
- Catalan: Bloemfontein
- Cebuano: Bloemfontein (kapital sa lalawigan sa Habagatang Aprika)
- Cebuano: Bloemfontein
- Central Kurdish: بلوومفۆنتەین
- Central Kurdish: بلۆیمفۆنتین
- Chechen: Блумфонтейн
- Chinese: Bloemfontein
- Chinese: 布隆方丹
- Chinese: 布隆泉
- Croatian: Bloemfontein
- Czech: Bloemfontein
- Danish: Bloemfontein
- Danish: Mangaung
- Dutch: Bloemfontein
- Eastern Mari: Блумфонтейн
- Egyptian Arabic: بلومفونتين
- Esperanto: Bloemfontein
- Esperanto: Blumfontejno
- Estonian: Bloemfontein
- Faroese: Bloemfontein
- Finnish: Bloemfontein
- French: Bloemfontein
- Galician: Bloemfontein
- Galician: Mangaung
- Georgian: ბლუმფონტეინი
- German: Bloemfontein
- Greek: Μπλουμφοντέιν
- Guarani: Bloemfontein
- Gujarati: બ્લોમફોન્ટેન
- Hakka Chinese: Bloemfontein
- Hausa: Bloemfontein
- Hebrew: בלומפונטיין
- Hindi: ब्लूमफ़ोनटेन
- Hungarian: Bloemfontein
- Icelandic: Bloemfontein
- Inari Sami: Bloemfontein
- Indonesian: Bloemfontein
- Interlingua: Bloemfontein
- Interlingue: Bloemfontein
- Irish: Bloemfontein
- Italian: Bloemfontein
- Italian: Mangaung
- Japanese: ブルームフォンテイン
- Japanese: ブルームフォンテン
- Japanese: ブルームフォンテーン
- Javanese: Bloemfontein
- Kabyle: Bloemfontein
- Kannada: ಬ್ಲಾಎಂಫಾಂಟೆನ್
- Kazakh: Блумфонтейн
- Kildin Sami: Блумфонтейн
- Korean: 볼룸폰테인
- Korean: 블롬폰테인
- Korean: 블룸폰테인
- Latin: Bloemfontein
- Latin: Bloemfonteinum
- Latvian: Bloemfontein
- Latvian: Blumfonteina
- Latvian: Mangaung
- Ligurian: Bloemfontein
- Lithuanian: Blufonteinas
- Lithuanian: Blumfonteinas
- Lombard: Bloemfontein
- Lule Sami: Bloemfontein
- Luxembourgish: Bloemfontein
- Macedonian: Блумфонтејн
- Malagasy: Bloemfontein
- Malay: Bloemfontein
- Malayalam: Bloemfontein
- Malayalam: ബ്ലൂംഫൊണ്ടെയ്ൻ
- Malayalam: ബ്ലൂംഫൌണ്ടെയിൻ
- Malayalam: ബ്ലൂംഫൗണ്ടെയിൻ
- Malayalam: ബ്ലോംഫൊണ്ടെയ്ൻ
- Maori: Pūrumiwhōniniti
- Marathi: ब्लूमफाँटेन
- Marathi: ब्लोएमफाँटेन
- Mazanderani: بلومفونتن
- Min Dong Chinese: Bloemfontein
- Min Nan Chinese: Bloemfontein
- Mingrelian: ბლუმფონტეინი
- Moroccan Arabic: بلومفونطين
- Navajo: Chxǫǫh Biiʼ Tóháálį́
- Neapolitan: Bloemfontein
- Northern Frisian: Bloemfontein
- Northern Sami: Bloemfontein
- Norwegian: Bloemfontein
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bloemfontain
- Norwegian Bokmål: Bloemfontein
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Bloemfontein
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Mangaung
- Novial: Blumfonteyn
- Nyanja: Bloemfontein
- Occitan (post 1500): Bloemfontein
- Ossetian: Блумфонтейн
- Panjabi: ਬਲੂਮਫੋਂਟੈਨ
- Papiamento: Bloemfontein
- Pedi: Bloemfontein
- Pennsylvania German: Bloemfontein
- Persian: بلومفونتن
- Persian: بلوم فونتین
- Persian: بلومفونتین
- Piemontese: Bloemfontein
- Pite Sami: Bloemfontein
- Polish: Bloemfontein
- Portuguese: Bloemfontein
- Romanian: Bloemfontein
- Russian: Блумфонтейн
- Sardinian: Bloemfontein
- Scots: Bloemfontein
- Scottish Gaelic: Bloemfontein
- Serbian: Блумфонтејн
- Serbo-Croatian: Bloemfontein
- Shona: Bloemfontein
- Sinhala: බ්ලොම්ෆොන්ටීන්
- Skolt Sami: Bloemfontein
- Slovak: Bloemfontein
- Slovenian: Bloemfontein
- Somali: Bloemfontein
- South Azerbaijani: بلومفونتن
- Southern Sami: Bloemfontein
- Southern Sotho: Mangaung
- Spanish: Bloemfontein
- Spanish: La ciudad de las rosas
- Spanish: Mangaung
- Swahili: Bloemfontein
- Swahili: Mangaung
- Swedish: Bloemfontein
- Swedish: Blœmfontain
- Tagalog: Bloemfontein
- Tajik: Блумфонтейн
- Tamil: புளும்பொன்டின்
- Telugu: బ్లామ్ ఫాంటేయిన్
- Thai: บลูมฟอนเทน
- Thai: โบลเอมฟอนเทอิน
- Tornedalen Finnish: Bloemfontein
- Tswana: Bloemfontein
- Turkish: Bloem Fontein
- Turkish: Bloemfontein
- Ukrainian: Блумфонтайн
- Ukrainian: Блумфонтейн
- Ume Sami: Bloemfontein
- Urdu: بلومفونٹین
- Venda: Bloemfontein
- Venetian: Bloemfontein
- Vietnamese: Bloemfontein
- Volapük: Bloemfontein
- Waray (Philippines): Bloemfontein
- Waray (Philippines): Mangaung
- Welsh: Bloemfontein
- Western Frisian: Bloemfontein
- Western Panjabi: بلوئمفونٹین
- Western Panjabi: بلومفونٹین
- Wu Chinese: 布隆方丹
- Xhosa: EBloemfontein
- Yiddish: בלומפאנטיין
- Yoruba: Bloemfontein
- Yue Chinese: 布隆方丹
- Zeeuws: Bloemfontein
- Zulu: Bloemfontein
- Zulu: IBloemfontein
Other Places Named Bloemfontein
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