Mahikeng

Mahikeng is a railway station in , , and has an elevation of 1,281 metres. Mahikeng is situated nearby to the suburb .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mahikeng and Mmabatho.

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, 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.

Suburb
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. is situated 5 km northwest of Mahikeng.

Mahikeng

Latitude
-25.86667° or 25° 52′ south
Longitude
25.65° or 25° 39′ east
Elevation
1,281 metres (4,203 feet)
Open location code
5G674MM2+82
Geo­Names ID
980594
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