Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein is popularly and poetically known as "the city of roses", for its abundance of these flowers and the annual rose festival held there. The city hosts numerous museums, including the National Women's Monument, the Anglo-Boer War Museum, the National Museum, and the Oliewenhuis Art Museum.
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  • Type: City with 370,000 residents
  • Description: judicial capital of South Africa
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Toyota Stadium and Bloemfontein railway station.

Stadium
Photo: Graham Maclachlan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Free State Stadium, currently known as the for sponsorship reasons and formerly known as Vodacom Park, is a stadium in Bloemfontein in the of , used mainly for rugby union and also sometimes for association football.

Railway station
Photo: Andre Kritzinger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Bloemfontein central railway station is a railway station located in Bloemfontein, Free State Province, . The first railway line connected Bloemfontein to in 1890, resulting in a centrally located station site on the corner of Maitland and Harvey streets, east of Kings Park.

Museum
Photo: South African Tourism, CC BY 2.0.
The National Museum in Bloemfontein dates back to the 1870s, when its collections and displays comprised mainly rarities from around the world. It was established on 20 July 1877 and opened to the public on 20 May 1878.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Westdene and Hospitaalpark.

Suburb
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is a suburb of the city of Bloemfontein in .

Suburb
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' All the street names are named after people who contributed to medicine.

Suburb
Photo: Graham Maclachlan, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a suburb of the city of Bloemfontein in .

Bloemfontein

Latitude
-29.1164° or 29° 6′ 59″ south
Longitude
26.2155° or 26° 12′ 56″ east
Population
370,000
Elevation
1,396 metres (4,580 feet)
IATA airport code
BFN
United Nations Location Code
ZA BFN
Open location code
5G28V6M8+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26938845
Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
1018725
Wiki­data ID
Q37701
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Bloemfontein” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Блумфонтеин”
  • Afrikaans: “Bloemfontein”
  • Albanian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Amharic: “ብሉምፎንቴይን”
  • Arabic: “بلومفونتاين”
  • Arabic: “بلومفونتين”
  • Arabic: “بلويمفونتاين”
  • Armenian: “Բլումֆոնթեյն”
  • Armenian: “Բլումֆոնտեյն”
  • Arpitan: “Bloemfontein”
  • Asturian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Azerbaijani: “Blumfonteyn”
  • Balinese: “Bloemfontein”
  • Basque: “Bloemfontein”
  • Basque: “Mangaung”
  • Belarusian: “Блумфантэйн”
  • Belarusian: “Блюмфантэйн”
  • Bengali: “ব্লুমফন্টেইন”
  • Bengali: “ব্লোমফন্টেইন”
  • Bosnian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Breton: “Bloemfontein”
  • Bulgarian: “Блумфонтейн”
  • Catalan: “Bloemfontein”
  • Cebuano: “Bloemfontein (kapital sa lalawigan sa Habagatang Aprika)”
  • Cebuano: “Bloemfontein”
  • Central Kurdish: “بلوومفۆنتەین”
  • Chechen: “Блумфонтейн”
  • Chinese: “Bloemfontein”
  • Chinese: “布隆方丹”
  • Chinese: “布隆泉”
  • Croatian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Czech: “Bloemfontein”
  • Danish: “Bloemfontein”
  • Danish: “Mangaung”
  • Dutch: “Bloemfontein”
  • Eastern Mari: “Блумфонтейн”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بلومفونتين”
  • Esperanto: “Bloemfontein”
  • Esperanto: “Blumfontejno”
  • Estonian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Faroese: “Bloemfontein”
  • Finnish: “Bloemfontein”
  • French: “Bloemfontein”
  • Galician: “Bloemfontein”
  • Galician: “Mangaung”
  • Georgian: “ბლუმფონტეინი”
  • German: “Bloemfontein”
  • Greek: “Μπλουμφοντέιν”
  • Guarani: “Bloemfontein”
  • Gujarati: “બ્લોમફોન્ટેન”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bloemfontein”
  • Hausa: “Bloemfontein”
  • Hebrew: “בלומפונטיין”
  • Hindi: “ब्लूमफ़ोनटेन”
  • Hungarian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Icelandic: “Bloemfontein”
  • Inari Sami: “Bloemfontein”
  • Indonesian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Interlingua: “Bloemfontein”
  • Interlingue: “Bloemfontein”
  • Irish: “Bloemfontein”
  • Italian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Italian: “Mangaung”
  • Japanese: “ブルームフォンテーン”
  • Japanese: “ブルームフォンテイン”
  • Japanese: “ブルームフォンテン”
  • Javanese: “Bloemfontein”
  • Kabyle: “Bloemfontein”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಲಾಎಂಫಾಂಟೆನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Блумфонтейн”
  • Kildin Sami: “Блумфонтейн”
  • Kirghiz: “Блумфонтейн”
  • Korean: “볼룸폰테인”
  • Korean: “블롬폰테인”
  • Korean: “블룸폰테인”
  • Latin: “Bloemfontein”
  • Latin: “Bloemfonteinum”
  • Latvian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Latvian: “Blumfonteina”
  • Latvian: “Mangaung”
  • Ligurian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Lithuanian: “Blufonteinas”
  • Lithuanian: “Blumfonteinas”
  • Livvi: “Bloemfontein”
  • Lombard: “Bloemfontein”
  • Lule Sami: “Bloemfontein”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bloemfontein”
  • Macedonian: “Блумфонтејн”
  • Malagasy: “Bloemfontein”
  • Malay: “Bloemfontein”
  • Malayalam: “Bloemfontein”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്ലൂംഫൊണ്ടെയ്ൻ”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്ലൂംഫൌണ്ടെയിൻ”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്ലൂംഫൗണ്ടെയിൻ”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്ലോംഫൊണ്ടെയ്ൻ”
  • Maori: “Pūrumiwhōniniti”
  • Marathi: “ब्लूमफाँटेन”
  • Marathi: “ब्लोएमफाँटेन”
  • Mazanderani: “بلومفونتن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bloemfontein”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bloemfontein”
  • Minangkabau: “Bloemfontein”
  • Mingrelian: “ბლუმფონტეინი”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بلومفونطين”
  • Navajo: “Chxǫǫh Biiʼ Tóháálį́”
  • Neapolitan: “Bloemfontein”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Northern Sami: “Bloemfontein”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bloemfontain”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bloemfontein”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bloemfontein”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mangaung”
  • Norwegian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Novial: “Blumfonteyn”
  • Nyanja: “Bloemfontein”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bloemfontein”
  • Oromo: “Bloemfontein”
  • Ossetian: “Блумфонтейн”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਲੂਮਫੋਂਟੈਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Bloemfontein”
  • Pedi: “Bloemfontein”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Bloemfontein”
  • Persian: “بلوم فونتین”
  • Persian: “بلومفونتن”
  • Persian: “بلوم‌فونتین”
  • Piemontese: “Bloemfontein”
  • Pite Sami: “Bloemfontein”
  • Polish: “Bloemfontein”
  • Portuguese: “Bloemfontein”
  • Pushto: “بلومفونتين”
  • Romanian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Russian: “Блумфонтейн”
  • Sardinian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Scots: “Bloemfontein”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bloemfontein”
  • Serbian: “Блумфонтејн”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Shona: “Bloemfontein”
  • Sindhi: “بلومفونٽين”
  • Sinhala: “බ්ලොම්ෆොන්ටීන්”
  • Skolt Sami: “Bloemfontein”
  • Slovak: “Bloemfontein”
  • Slovenian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Somali: “Bloemfontein”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بلومفونتن”
  • Southern Sami: “Bloemfontein”
  • Southern Sotho: “Mangaung”
  • Spanish: “Bloemfontein”
  • Spanish: “La ciudad de las rosas”
  • Spanish: “Mangaung”
  • Swahili: “Bloemfontein”
  • Swahili: “Mangaung”
  • Swedish: “Blœmfontain”
  • Swedish: “Bloemfontein”
  • Tagalog: “Bloemfontein”
  • Tajik: “Блумфонтейн”
  • Tamil: “புளும்பொன்டின்”
  • Tatar: “Блумфонтейн”
  • Telugu: “బ్లామ్ ఫాంటేయిన్”
  • Thai: “บลูมฟอนเทน”
  • Thai: “โบลเอมฟอนเทอิน”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Bloemfontein”
  • Tswana: “Bloemfontein”
  • Turkish: “Bloem Fontein”
  • Turkish: “Bloemfontein”
  • Ukrainian: “Блумфонтайн”
  • Ukrainian: “Блумфонтейн”
  • Ume Sami: “Bloemfontein”
  • Urdu: “بلومفونٹین”
  • Uzbek: “Bloemfontein”
  • Venda: “Bloemfontein”
  • Venetian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Vietnamese: “Bloemfontein”
  • Volapük: “Bloemfontein”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bloemfontein”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mangaung”
  • Welsh: “Bloemfontein”
  • Western Frisian: “Bloemfontein”
  • Western Panjabi: “بلوئمفونٹین”
  • Western Panjabi: “بلومفونٹین”
  • Wu Chinese: “布隆方丹”
  • Xhosa: “EBloemfontein”
  • Yiddish: “בלומפאנטיין”
  • Yoruba: “Bloemfontein”
  • Yue Chinese: “布隆方丹”
  • Zeeuws: “Bloemfontein”
  • Zulu: “Bloemfontein”
  • Zulu: “IBloemfontein”
  • “Bloemfontein”
  • “ma Bloemfontein”
  • “ma Lunponten”
  • “ma Punponten”
  • “ma tomo Bloemfontein”
  • “ma tomo Lunponten”
  • “ma tomo Punponten”

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