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Philippolis

place in Free State, South Africa
Place Town Q2678218

Facts

10 properties

Identity

Instance of
town
Inception
1823[6]

Location

Country
South Africa[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -30.267°, 25.283°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kopanong Local Municipality[1]
Shares border with
Jagersfontein[3]

Population and size

Elevation above sea level
+1378[8]

Codes

Local dialing code
051[5]
Postal code
9970, 9970[4]
More facts +1
Capital of
Adam Koksland[7]
🏷️ Also known as
en Philippolis he פיליפוליס ru Филипполис zh 菲利普波利斯
🔖 Identifiers · 9
VIAF cluster ID
138546483
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n97029576
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Dorpsbeeld Philippolis.JPG ↗
Freebase ID
/m/0514bq
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1272205
GeoNames ID
965478
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1093502
J9U entity ID
987007542769305171
Yale LUX ID
place/d0ce64a1-0404-40ee-9e69-6b970f76a185
📚 Sources · 1
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PopulationP1082
4,370 2026-09-26 P/PPL · ZA GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Johannesburg 2026-09-26 P/PPL · ZA GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
where from?
Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
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🔗 Connections
People born here 3
Laurens van der Post, Brümilde van Rensburg, William Henry Solomon
Country 1
South Africa
Instance of 1
town
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Kopanong Local Municipality
Shares border with 1
Jagersfontein
← Shares border with 1
Colesberg
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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . South African Post Office. postoffice.co.za. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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  1. 25w ago · KaleemBot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Elevation above sea level → 1,378 metre
    Country → South Africa
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Kopanong Local Municipality
    Coordinate location → -30.267°, 25.283°
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Changed [ur] labels, descriptions, aliases and claims"
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