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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 64,100 residents
- Description: city in South Africa
- Also known as: “Motsethabong”
Photo: HESM29, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Welkom-Gimnasium.
Welkom-Gimnasium
School
Welkom-Gimnasium is an academic secondary school in Welkom, South Africa. Founded in 1953 as an Afrikaans school, the school has been a dual-medium school offering classes in English since 1996.
Welkom
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Matjhabeng Local Municipality, Lejweleputswa District Municipality, Free State, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-27.9823° or 27° 58′ 56″ southLongitude
26.738° or 26° 44′ 17″ eastPopulation
64,100Elevation
1,376 metres (4,514 feet)IATA airport code
WELUnited Nations Location Code
ZA WELOpen location code
5G482P9Q+35OpenStreetMap ID
node 2269464860OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
940909Wikidata ID
Q1015631
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Welkom” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Welkom”
- Albanian: “Welkom”
- Arabic: “ويلكوم”
- Armenian: “Վելկոմ”
- Asturian: “Welkom”
- Basque: “Motsethabong”
- Basque: “Welkom”
- Belarusian: “Вэлкам”
- Bengali: “ওয়েলকম”
- Bulgarian: “Велком”
- Catalan: “Welkom”
- Cebuano: “Welkom”
- Chinese: “韋爾科姆”
- Chinese: “韦尔科姆”
- Chinese: “魏爾康”
- Danish: “Welkom”
- Dutch: “Motsethabong”
- Dutch: “Welkom”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ولكوم”
- Esperanto: “Welkom”
- Estonian: “Welkom”
- Finnish: “Welkom”
- French: “Motsethabong”
- French: “Welkom”
- Galician: “Welkom”
- German: “Welkom”
- Greek: “Γουέλκομ”
- Gujarati: “વેલ્કોમ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Welkom”
- Hebrew: “ולקום”
- Hindi: “वेलकम”
- Hungarian: “Welkom”
- Indonesian: “Welkom”
- Italian: “Welkom”
- Japanese: “ウェルコム”
- Kannada: “ವೆಲ್ಕಮ್”
- Korean: “벨콤”
- Korean: “웰콤”
- Latvian: “Velkoma”
- Lithuanian: “Velkomas”
- Malagasy: “Welkom”
- Malay: “Welkom”
- Marathi: “वेलकोम”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Welkom”
- Norwegian: “Welkom”
- Pedi: “Welkom”
- Pennsylvania German: “Welkom”
- Polish: “Welkom”
- Portuguese: “Welkom”
- Romanian: “Welkom”
- Russian: “Велком”
- Sinhala: “වෙල්කොම්”
- Spanish: “Motsethabong”
- Spanish: “Welkom”
- Swahili: “Welkom”
- Swedish: “Welkom”
- Tamil: “வெல்கொம்”
- Telugu: “వెల్కోమ్లో”
- Thai: “เวลคอมบ์”
- Turkish: “Welkom”
- Ukrainian: “Велком”
- Urdu: “ویلکوم”
- Venda: “Welkom”
- Vietnamese: “Welkom”
- Zulu: “IWelkom”
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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 “Welkom”. Photo: Caracal Rooikat, CC BY-SA 4.0.