Potchefstroom
Potchefstroom is a city of 43,000 people that is part of JB Marks Local Municipality in North West Province. It is a university town with several museums and historical sites.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include JB Marks Oval and Olën Park.
JB Marks Oval
Stadium
JB Marks Oval is a cricket ground in Potchefstroom, North West Province, South Africa. It has hosted two Test matches, with the first in 2002. The Highveld Lions also play some home matches here.
Olën Park
Stadium
Olën Park, also known as Profert Olën Park for sponsorship reasons, is a stadium in Potchefstroom, South Africa. It was used for rugby union matches by the Leopards team in the First Division of the Currie Cup as well as the Vodacom Cup.
NWU Astro
Pitch
NWU Astro, known as the NWU-PUK Astro, is a field hockey stadium in North-West University, Potchefstroom, North West, South Africa. In the past, the stadium has hosted the following major tournaments:…
Potchefstroom
- Type: City with 43,400 residents
- Description: city in the North West Province of South Africa
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Tlokwe Local Municipality, Dr Kenneth Kaunda District Municipality, North West Province, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.7078° or 26° 42′ 28″ southLongitude
27.0958° or 27° 5′ 45″ eastPopulation
43,400Elevation
1,335 metres (4,380 feet)IATA airport code
PCFUnited Nations Location Code
ZA ZEHOpen location code
5G5973RW+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 262721949OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
964349Wikidata ID
Q605167
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Potchefstroom” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Potchefstroom”
- Arabic: “بوتشيفستروم”
- Armenian: “Պոչտեֆստրում”
- Asturian: “Potchefstroom”
- Catalan: “Potchefstroom”
- Cebuano: “Potchefstroom”
- Chinese: “波切夫斯特魯姆”
- Chinese: “波切夫斯特鲁姆”
- Czech: “Potchefstroom”
- Danish: “Potchefstroom”
- Dutch: “Potchefstroom”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوتشيفستروم”
- Esperanto: “Potchefstroom”
- Estonian: “Potchefstroom”
- Finnish: “Potchefstroom”
- French: “Potchefstroom”
- German: “Potchefstroom”
- Hebrew: “פוצ’פסטרום”
- Hindi: “पोचेफस्ट्रूम”
- Hungarian: “Potchefstroom”
- Irish: “Potchefstroom”
- Italian: “Potchefstroom”
- Japanese: “ポチェフストルーム”
- Korean: “포체프스트롬”
- Malagasy: “Potchefstroom”
- Malayalam: “പൊച്ചെഫെസ്ട്രൂം”
- Marathi: “पॉचेफस्ट्रूम”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Potchefstroom”
- Norwegian: “Potchefstroom”
- Pedi: “Potchefstroom”
- Pennsylvania German: “Potchefstroom”
- Polish: “Potchefstroom”
- Portuguese: “Potchefstroom”
- Romanian: “Potchefstroom”
- Russian: “Потчефструм”
- Russian: “Почефетрум”
- Russian: “Почефструм”
- Slovak: “Potchefstroom”
- Slovenian: “Potchefstroom”
- Spanish: “Potchefstroom”
- Swahili: “Potchefstroom”
- Swedish: “Potchefstroom”
- Tswana: “Potchefstroom”
- Turkish: “Potchefstroom”
- Urdu: “پاٹشیفٹسروم”
- Venda: “Potchefstroom”
- Venetian: “Potchefstroom”
- Zulu: “IPotchefstroom”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Potchefstroom”. Photo: Leo za1, CC BY-SA 3.0.