🇿🇦 Sudáfrica
Welkom
Welkom is a city in the Free State province of South Africa, located about 140 kilometres (90 mi) northeast of Bloemfontein, the provincial capital. Welkom is also known as Circle City, City Within A Garden, Mvela and Matjhabeng. The city's Sesotho name, Matjhabeng means 'where nations meet', derived from the migrant labour system, where people of various countries such as Lesotho, Malawi and Mozambique etc. met to work in the mines of the gold fields.
- Country
- 🇿🇦 Sudáfrica
- Elevation
- 0 m
- Population
- 431,944
- Time zone
- Africa/Johannesburg
- Coordinates
- -27.98, 26.73
How far Welkom is from other cities in Sudáfrica
- Bloemfontein137 km✈ 55 min · 🚗 2 h 17 min
- Vereeniging187 km✈ 59 min · 🚗 3 h 7 min
- Evaton195 km✈ 59 min · 🚗 3 h 15 min
- Soweto220 km✈ 1 h 1 min · 🚗 3 h 40 min
- Roodepoort231 km✈ 1 h 2 min · 🚗 3 h 51 min
- Krugersdorp234 km✈ 1 h 2 min · 🚗 3 h 54 min
- Johannesburg236 km✈ 1 h 2 min · 🚗 3 h 56 min
- Randburg244 km✈ 1 h 3 min · 🚗 4 h 4 min
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