Free State
Fezile Dabi District Municipality
Ngwathe Local Municipality

Vredefort

Vredefort is a small farming town in the northern part of . 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.
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Vredefort

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
node 262722429
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
942683
Wiki­data ID
Q1689721
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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”
  • Welsh: “Vredefort”
  • Zulu: “IVredefort”

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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 “Vredefort”. Photo: Tadpolefarm, CC BY-SA 4.0.