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.
- City with about 149,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,350 metres (4,430 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code PCF
- Description: city in the North West Province of South Africa
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.
Potchefstroom
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Latitude
-26.7078° or 26° 42′ 28″ south
Longitude
27.0958° or 27° 5′ 45″ east
UN/LOCODE
ZA ZEH
Open location code
5G5973RW+V8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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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