Mahikeng
Mahikeng, also known as Mafikeng and Mafeking, is a town of 15,000 people in North West Province, South Africa. The town has many resorts, popular around the summer season. It is famous for the Siege of Mafeking, in which Robert Baden-Powell rose to fame.Photo: Diverman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: South African Tourism, CC BY 2.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Mafikeng railway station
Mahikeng Railway Station is the central railway station in the city of Mahikeng, South Africa, and one of the oldest railway stations in Africa.Mahikeng
- Type: City with 15,100 residents
- Description: city in North West, South Africa
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Mahikeng Local Municipality, Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-25.8636° or 25° 51' 49" southLongitude
25.6586° or 25° 39' 31" eastPopulation
15,100Elevation
1,284 metres (4,213 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA MFKOpen Location Code
5G674MP5+HCOpenStreetMap ID
node 59953738OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
980595Wikidata ID
Q211055Mahikeng Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Mafeking
- Afrikaans: Mafikeng
- Afrikaans: Mahikeng
- Arabic: Mahikeng
- Arabic: مافكينج
- Arabic: ماهيكينغ
- Armenian: Մահիկենգ
- Armenian: Մաֆիկենգ
- Asturian: Mahikeng
- Azerbaijani: Mafikenq
- Basque: Mafikeng
- Basque: Mahikeng
- Belarusian: Мафекінг
- Belarusian: Мафікенг
- Bengali: মাহিকেং
- Bulgarian: Мафикенг
- Bulgarian: Махикенг
- Catalan: Mafikeng
- Catalan: Mahikeng
- Cebuano: Mahikeng
- Chinese: 梅富根
- Chinese: 馬菲京
- Chinese: 马弗京
- Croatian: Mafikeng
- Croatian: Mahikeng
- Czech: Mafeking
- Czech: Mahikeng
- Danish: Mafeking
- Danish: Mafikeng
- Danish: Mahikeng
- Dutch: Mafeking
- Dutch: Mafikeng
- Dutch: Mahikeng
- Dutch: Mmabatho
- Egyptian Arabic: مافكينج
- English: Mafeking
- English: Mafikeng
- Esperanto: Mahikeng
- Estonian: Mahikeng
- Finnish: Mafeking
- Finnish: Mafikeng
- French: Mafeking
- French: Mafikeng
- French: Mahikeng
- German: Mafeking
- German: Mafikeng
- German: Mahikeng
- Greek: Μάχικενγκ
- Gujarati: મહાકેંગ
- Hakka Chinese: Mafikeng
- Hausa: Mahikeng
- Hebrew: מייפקינג
- Hindi: माहिकेन्ग
- Hungarian: Mafeking
- Hungarian: Mafikeng
- Hungarian: Mahikeng
- Indonesian: Mafeking
- Indonesian: Mafikeng
- Irish: Mahikeng
- Italian: Mafeking
- Italian: Mafikeng
- Italian: Mahikeng
- Japanese: マフィケング
- Japanese: マフェキング
- Kannada: ಮಹಿಕೆಂಗ್
- Korean: 마피켕
- Latin: Maficengum
- Latin: Mahikeng
- Latvian: Mafikenga
- Lithuanian: Mafekingas
- Lithuanian: Mafikengas
- Lithuanian: Mahikengas
- Malagasy: Mahikeng
- Malay: Mahikeng
- Marathi: महाकेंग
- Northern Frisian: Mahikeng
- Norwegian: Mahikeng
- Norwegian Bokmål: Mafeking
- Norwegian Bokmål: Mafikeng
- Nyanja: Mafikeng
- Pedi: Mahikeng
- Persian: مهیکنگ
- Polish: Mafeking
- Polish: Mafikeng
- Polish: Mahikeng
- Portuguese: Mafeking
- Portuguese: Mafikeng
- Portuguese: Mahikeng
- Romanian: Mafikeng
- Romanian: Mahikeng
- Russian: Мафекинг
- Russian: Мафикенг
- Scots: Mahikeng
- Serbian: Mafikeng
- Serbian: Мафекинг
- Serbian: Мафикенг
- Serbo-Croatian: Mafikeng
- Serbo-Croatian: Mahikeng
- Sinhala: මාහිකෙන්ග්
- Slovenian: Mafeking
- Slovenian: Mahikeng
- South Azerbaijani: مهیکنق
- Southern Sotho: Mahikeng
- Spanish: Mafeking
- Spanish: Mafikeng
- Spanish: Mahikeng
- Swahili: Mafikeng
- Swati: Mafikeng
- Swedish: Mafeking
- Swedish: Mafikeng
- Swedish: Mahikeng
- Tamil: மெஹிகெங்
- Telugu: మహికెంగ్
- Thai: มาฟิเคง
- Tswana: Mahikeng
- Turkish: Mahikeng
- Ukrainian: Мафікенг
- Urdu: ماہیکینگ
- Venda: Mafikeng
- Venda: Mahikeng
- Vietnamese: Mahikeng
- Waray (Philippines): Mahikeng
- Western Panjabi: مافیکنگ
- Wu Chinese: 梅富根
- Xhosa: IMahikeng
- Yoruba: Mafikeng
- Yoruba: Mahikeng
- Yue Chinese: 馬菲京
- Zulu: IMahikeng
- Zulu: Mafikeng
Other Places Named Mahikeng
Localities in the Area
- Riviera ParkSuburb
- Golf ViewSuburb
- DanvilleSuburb
- Top VillageSuburb
- LibertasTown
Popular Destinations in North West Province
Escape to a Random Place
About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Mahikeng. Photo: South African Tourism, CC BY 2.0.