North West Province
Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality
Mahikeng Local Municipality

Mmabatho

Mmabatho is the former capital of the North-West Province of . During the apartheid era, it was the capital of the former "Bantustan" of Bophuthatswana, separated from the adjacent Mafeking which temporarily remained outside Bophuthatswana.
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  • Type: Suburb with 76,800 residents
  • Description: town
  • Also known as: “Mabatho” and “Mbabatho”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mmabatho Stadium.

Stadium
is a multi-purpose stadium in , . It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium holds 59,000 people and was designed and built in 1981 by an Israeli construction firm.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mahikeng.

Photo: South African Tourism, CC BY 2.0.
, also known as Mafikeng and Mafeking, is a town of 15,000 people in , 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.

Mmabatho

Latitude
-25.8403° or 25° 50′ 25″ south
Longitude
25.6092° or 25° 36′ 33″ east
Population
76,800
Elevation
1,282 metres (4,206 feet)
IATA airport code
MBD
United Nations Location Code
ZA MBD
Open location code
5G675J55+VM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30212071
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
975436
Wiki­data ID
Q358762
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mmabatho” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mmabatho”
  • Asturian: “Mmabatho”
  • Bulgarian: “Мабатхо”
  • Cebuano: “Mmabatho”
  • Chinese: “姆馬巴托”
  • Dutch: “Mmabatho”
  • Estonian: “Mmabatho”
  • Finnish: “Mmabatho”
  • French: “Mmabatho”
  • German: “Mmabatho”
  • Japanese: “ムマバソ”
  • Japanese: “ムマバト”
  • Malagasy: “Mmabatho”
  • Polish: “Mmabatho”
  • Russian: “Ммабато”
  • Spanish: “Mabato”
  • Spanish: “Mmabatho”
  • Zulu: “IMmabatho”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Mega City and Department of Employment and Labour.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mmabatho”. Photo: NJR ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0.