Mahikeng

Mahikeng, 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.
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Latitude
-25.8636° or 25° 51′ 49″ south
Longitude
25.6586° or 25° 39′ 31″ east
UN/LOCODE
ZA MFK
Open location code
5G674MP5+HC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 59953738
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
980595
Wiki­data ID
Q211055

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mahikeng” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mafeking”
  • Afrikaans: “Mafikeng”
  • Afrikaans: “Mahikeng”
  • Amharic: “ማፊኬንግ”
  • Arabic: “مافكينج”
  • Arabic: “مافيكينج”
  • Arabic: “ماهيكينغ”
  • Armenian: “Մահիկենգ”
  • Armenian: “Մաֆիկենգ”
  • Asturian: “Mahikeng”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mafikeng”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mafikenq”
  • Basque: “Mafikeng”
  • Basque: “Mahikeng”
  • Belarusian: “Мафекінг”
  • Belarusian: “Мафікенг”
  • Bengali: “মাফিকেং”
  • Bengali: “মাহিকেং”
  • Bulgarian: “Мафикенг”
  • Bulgarian: “Махикенг”
  • Catalan: “Mafikeng”
  • Catalan: “Mahikeng”
  • Cebuano: “Mahikeng”
  • Chinese: “梅富根”
  • Chinese: “馬菲京”
  • Chinese: “马弗京”
  • Croatian: “Mafikeng”
  • Croatian: “Mahikeng”
  • Czech: “Mafeking”
  • Czech: “Mahikeng”
  • Danish: “Mafeking”
  • Danish: “Mafikeng”
  • Danish: “Mahikeng”
  • Dutch: “Mafeking”
  • Dutch: “Mafikeng”
  • Dutch: “Mahikeng”
  • Dutch: “Mmabatho”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مافكينج”
  • Esperanto: “Mahikeng”
  • Estonian: “Mahikeng”
  • Finnish: “Mafeking”
  • Finnish: “Mafikeng”
  • Finnish: “Mahikeng”
  • French: “Mafeking”
  • French: “Mafikeng”
  • French: “Mahikeng”
  • German: “Mafeking”
  • German: “Mafikeng”
  • German: “Mahikeng”
  • Greek: “Μάχικενγκ”
  • Gujarati: “મહાકેંગ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mafikeng”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Mahikeng”
  • Hausa: “Mafikeng”
  • Hebrew: “מייפקינג”
  • Hindi: “माफिकेंग”
  • Hindi: “माहिकेन्ग”
  • Hungarian: “Mafikeng”
  • Hungarian: “Mahikeng”
  • Indonesian: “Mafeking”
  • Indonesian: “Mafikeng”
  • Indonesian: “Mahikeng”
  • Irish: “Mahikeng”
  • Italian: “Mafeking”
  • Italian: “Mafikeng”
  • Italian: “Mahikeng”
  • Japanese: “マフィケング”
  • Japanese: “マフェキング”
  • Javanese: “Mafikeng”
  • Kannada: “ಮಹಿಕೆಂಗ್”
  • Kazakh: “Макфикенг”
  • Kirghiz: “Макфикенг”
  • Korean: “마피켕”
  • Latin: “Maficengum”
  • Latin: “Mahikeng”
  • Latvian: “Mafikenga”
  • Latvian: “Mahikena”
  • Lithuanian: “Mafekingas”
  • Lithuanian: “Mafikengas”
  • Lithuanian: “Mahikengas”
  • Malagasy: “Mahikeng”
  • Malay: “Mafikeng”
  • Malay: “Mahikeng”
  • Marathi: “महाकेंग”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mahikeng”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mafeking”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mafikeng”
  • Norwegian: “Mahikeng”
  • Nyanja: “Mafikeng”
  • Oromo: “Mafikeng”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਾਫਿਕੇਂਗ”
  • Pedi: “Mahikeng”
  • Persian: “مافیکنگ”
  • Persian: “مهیکنگ”
  • Polish: “Mafeking”
  • Polish: “Mafikeng”
  • Polish: “Mahikeng”
  • Portuguese: “Mafeking”
  • Portuguese: “Mafikeng”
  • Portuguese: “Mahikeng”
  • Pushto: “مافيکينج”
  • Romanian: “Mafikeng”
  • Romanian: “Mahikeng”
  • Russian: “Макфикенг”
  • Russian: “Мафекинг”
  • Russian: “Мафикенг”
  • Scots: “Mahikeng”
  • Serbian: “Mafikeng”
  • Serbian: “Мафекинг”
  • Serbian: “Мафикенг”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mafikeng”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Mahikeng”
  • Sinhala: “මාහිකෙන්ග්”
  • Slovak: “Mahikeng”
  • Slovenian: “Mafeking”
  • Slovenian: “Mahikeng”
  • Somali: “Mafikeng”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مهیکنق”
  • Southern Sotho: “Mahikeng”
  • Spanish: “Mafeking”
  • Spanish: “Mafikeng”
  • Spanish: “Mahikeng”
  • Swahili: “Mafikeng”
  • Swahili: “Mahikeng”
  • Swati: “Mafikeng”
  • Swedish: “Mafeking”
  • Swedish: “Mafikeng”
  • Swedish: “Mahikeng”
  • Tajik: “Макфикенг”
  • Tamil: “மெஹிகெங்”
  • Tatar: “Макфикенг”
  • Telugu: “మహికెంగ్”
  • Thai: “มาฟิเคง”
  • Tswana: “Mahikeng”
  • Tumbuka: “Mahikeng, North West”
  • Turkish: “Mafikeng”
  • Turkish: “Mahikeng”
  • Ukrainian: “Мафікенг”
  • Ukrainian: “Мафікенґ”
  • Urdu: “مافیکینگ”
  • Urdu: “ماہیکینگ”
  • Uzbek: “Mafikeng”
  • Venda: “Mafeking”
  • Venda: “Mafikeng”
  • Venda: “Mahikeng”
  • Vietnamese: “Mafikeng”
  • Vietnamese: “Mahikeng”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mahikeng”
  • Western Panjabi: “مافیکنگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅富根”
  • Xhosa: “IMahikeng”
  • Yoruba: “Mafikeng”
  • Yoruba: “Mahikeng”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬菲京”
  • Zulu: “IMahikeng”
  • Zulu: “Mafikeng”

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