Botshabelo
Botshabelo, meaning "a place of refuge", is a large township set up in 1979. It is located east of Bloemfontein in the present-day Free State province of South Africa.- Type: City with 182,000 residents
- Description: town in the Free State, South Africa
- Also known as: “Botshabelo, Free State”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Botshabelo Stadium.
Botshabelo
- Categories: South African township and locality
- Location: Mangaung, Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality, Free State, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-29.2324° or 29° 13′ 57″ south
Longitude
26.7333° or 26° 43′ 60″ east
Population
182,000
Elevation
1,448 metres (4,751 feet)
Open location code
5G28QP9M+28
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Waray—“Botshabelo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Botshabelo”
- Arabic: “بوتشابلو”
- Armenian: “Բոտշաբելո”
- Bengali: “বতশাবেলো”
- Bulgarian: “Боцхабело”
- Cebuano: “Botshabelo”
- Chinese: “博茨巴洛”
- Danish: “Botshabelo”
- Dutch: “Botshabelo”
- Esperanto: “Botshabelo”
- Estonian: “Botshabelo”
- Finnish: “Botshabelo”
- French: “Botshabelo”
- German: “Botshabelo”
- Greek: “Μποτσαμπέλο”
- Gujarati: “બોટ્શાબેલો”
- Hindi: “बोटशालेलो”
- Indonesian: “Botshabelo”
- Italian: “Botshabelo”
- Japanese: “ボシャベロ”
- Kannada: “ಬೊಟ್ಷಬೆಲೊ”
- Korean: “봇샤벨로”
- Latvian: “Botšabelo”
- Lithuanian: “Počabelas”
- Malagasy: “Botshabelo”
- Malay: “Botshabelo”
- Marathi: “बाशेबेलो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Botshabelo”
- Norwegian: “Botshabelo”
- Pedi: “Botshabelo”
- Polish: “Botshabelo”
- Portuguese: “Botshabelo”
- Romanian: “Botshabelo”
- Russian: “Ботшабело”
- Sinhala: “බෝට්ෂබෙලෝ”
- Southern Sotho: “Botshabelo, Free State”
- Southern Sotho: “Botshabelo”
- Spanish: “Botshabelo”
- Swahili: “Botshabelo”
- Swedish: “Botshabelo”
- Tamil: “போட்க்ஷபிலோ”
- Telugu: “బొట్షాబేలో”
- Thai: “บอตชาเบโล”
- Turkish: “Botshabelo”
- Ukrainian: “Ботшабело”
- Urdu: “بوتشابیلو”
- Urdu: “بوٹشا بیلو، فری اسٹیٹ”
- Vietnamese: “Botshabelo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Botshabelo”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Botshabelo G and Botshabelo-B.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Informal diggings and Botshabelo District Hospital.
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Worth a closer look: Bloemfontein and Welkom.
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