Marquard
Marquard is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa that serves Winburg in the northwest. The town was set up in 1905 by an influential Dutch Reform minister, JJ Marquard, with the help of Christoffel Cornelis Froneman, the commandant of the Orange Free State.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Marquard
- Type: Town with 18,600 residents
- Description: place in Free State, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Setsoto Local Municipality, Thabo Mofutsanyana District Municipality, Free State, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-28.66389° or 28° 39′ 50″ southLongitude
27.43028° or 27° 25′ 49″ eastPopulation
18,600Elevation
1,518 metres (4,980 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA MQDOpen location code
5G398CPJ+C4OpenStreetMap ID
node 262709492OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Marquard” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Marquard”
- Asturian: “Marquard”
- Cebuano: “Marquard”
- Dutch: “Marquard”
- Estonian: “Marquard”
- Malagasy: “Marquard”
- Pedi: “Marquard”
- Romanian: “Marquard”
- Turkish: “Marquard”
- Zulu: “IMarquard”
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