Welkom
Welkom is the second-largest city in the Free State province. Welkom is known as "Circle City", "City within a Garden", "Mvela" and "Matjhabeng". The city's Sotho name, Matjhabeng, means 'where nations meet', derived from the migrant labour system, where people of various countries such as Lesotho, Malawi and Mozambique met to work in the mines of the gold fields.
- City with about 64,100 residents
- …lies at an elevation of around 1,330 metres (4,370 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code WEL
- …is also known as “Motsethabong”
- Description: city in South Africa
Places of Interest
Highlights include Welkom-Gimnasium.
Welkom-Gimnasium
School
Welkom-Gimnasium is an academic secondary school in Welkom, South Africa.
Welkom
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Latitude
-27.9823° or 27° 58′ 56″ south
Longitude
26.738° or 26° 44′ 17″ east
UN/LOCODE
ZA WEL
Open location code
5G482P9Q+35
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Welkom” goes by many names.
WelkomAfrikaans
WelkomAlbanian
ويلكومArabic
ՎելկոմArmenian
WelkomAsturian
MotsethabongBasque
WelkomBasque
ВэлкамBelarusian
ওয়েলকমBengali
ВелкомBulgarian
WelkomCatalan
WelkomCebuano
韋爾科姆Chinese
韦尔科姆Chinese
魏爾康Chinese
WelkomDanish
MotsethabongDutch
WelkomDutch
ولكومEgyptian Arabic
WelkomEsperanto
WelkomEstonian
WelkomFinnish
WelkomGalician
ΓουέλκομGreek
વેલ્કોમGujarati
WelkomHakka Chinese
ולקוםHebrew
वेलकमHindi
WelkomHungarian
WelkomIndonesian
WelkomItalian
ウェルコムJapanese
ವೆಲ್ಕಮ್Kannada
벨콤Korean
웰콤Korean
VelkomaLatvian
VelkomasLithuanian
WelkomMalagasy
WelkomMalay
वेलकोमMarathi
WelkomNorwegian
WelkomNorwegian Bokmål
වෙල්කොම්Sinhala
WelkomSwahili
WelkomSwedish
வெல்கொம்Tamil
వెల్కోమ్లోTelugu
เวลคอมบ์Thai
WelkomTurkish
ВелкомUkrainian
ویلکومUrdu
WelkomVenda
WelkomVietnamese
IWelkomZulu
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Free State: Highlights
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