Vredefort
Vredefort is a small farming town in the northern part of Free State. It is an agricultural town where cattle, peanuts, sorghum, sunflowers and maize are farmed. It is home to 3,000 residents. The nearby Vredefort Dome is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Vredefort
- Type: Town with 14,600 residents
- Description: small town in South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Ngwathe Local Municipality, Fezile Dabi District Municipality, Free State, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-27.005° or 27° 0′ 18″ south
Longitude
27.3656° or 27° 21′ 56″ east
Population
14,600
Elevation
1,425 metres (4,675 feet)
Inception
1878
Open location code
5G49X9W8+26
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Vredefort” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Vredefort”
- Asturian: “Vredefort”
- Bulgarian: “Вредефорт”
- Cebuano: “Vredefort”
- Chinese: “弗里德堡”
- Dutch: “Vredefort”
- Estonian: “Vredefort”
- French: “Vredefort”
- Georgian: “ვრედეფორტი”
- German: “Vredefort”
- Indonesian: “Vredefort”
- Malagasy: “Vredefort”
- Pedi: “Vredefort”
- Polish: “Vredefort”
- Portuguese: “Vredefort”
- Romanian: “Vredefort”
- Russian: “Вредефорт (город)”
- Russian: “Фридефорт”
- Southern Sotho: “Vredefort”
- Spanish: “Vredefort”
- Urdu: “وریڈ فورٹ”
- Welsh: “Vredefort”
- Zulu: “IVredefort”
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