| 词条 | Vredefort |
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| name = Vredefort | image_skyline = Nederduitse Gereformeerde Church Vredefort-005.jpg | image_caption = Nederduitse Gereformeerde Church, Church Street, Vredefort | pushpin_map = South Africa Free State#South Africa | coordinates = {{coord|27|01|S|27|23|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = South Africa | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = Free State | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = Fezile Dabi | subdivision_type3 = Municipality | subdivision_name3 = Ngwathe | subdivision_type4 = Main Place | established_title = Established | established_date = 1878[1] | leader_title = Councillor | area_footnotes = [2] | area_total_km2 = 21.4 | population_footnotes = [2] | population_total = 14619 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_density_km2 = auto | demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011) | demographics1_footnotes = [2] | demographics1_title1 = Black African | demographics1_info1 = 92.4% | demographics1_title2 = Coloured | demographics1_info2 = 2.1% | demographics1_title3 = Indian/Asian | demographics1_info3 = 0.3% | demographics1_title4 = White | demographics1_info4 = 5.0% | demographics1_title5 = Other | demographics1_info5 = 0.3% | demographics_type2 = First languages (2011) | demographics2_footnotes = [2] | demographics2_title1 = Sotho | demographics2_info1 = 68.9% | demographics2_title2 = Xhosa | demographics2_info2 = 15.7% | demographics2_title3 = Afrikaans | demographics2_info3 = 7.7% | demographics2_title4 = Zulu | demographics2_info4 = 1.6% | demographics2_title5 = Other | demographics2_info5 = 6.0% | timezone1 = SAST | utc_offset1 = +2 | postal_code_type = Postal code (street) | postal_code = 9595 | postal2_code_type = PO box | postal2_code = 9595 | area_code_type = Area code | area_code = 056 }} Vredefort is a small farming town in the Free State province of South Africa with cattle, peanuts, sorghum, sunflowers and maize being farmed. It is home to 3,000 residents. The town was established in 1876 on a farm called Visgat, on the Vredefort crater, the largest and oldest visible bolide impact crater in the world (with a diameter of {{convert|300|km|mi}}). It was this approximately {{convert|10|km|mi|adj=on}} wide bolide that led to the preservation of the gold-bearing reefs of the Free State some 2.02 billion years ago. The town got its name after the peaceful conclusion of a threatened war between the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. The British built a concentration camp here during the Second Boer War to house Boer women and children. The Vredefort Dome (Crater) is currently the largest and one of the oldest known meteor impact site in the world.[3] It is South Africa's seventh World Heritage Site and its status is largely due to the efforts of research scientists from Wits University.[4] Notable residents
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References1. ^{{cite web|title=Chronological order of town establishment in South Africa based on Floyd (1960:20-26)|url=http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-07212011-123414/unrestricted/05back.pdf|pages=xlv-lii}} 2. ^1 2 3 Sum of the Main Places Vredefort and Mokwallo from Census 2011. 3. ^[https://www.unb.ca/passc/ImpactDatabase/CIDiameterSort2.htm Earth Impact Database] 4. ^Information The Vredefort Dome Homepage External links{{commonscat}}
3 : Populated places in the Ngwathe Local Municipality|Second Boer War concentration camps|Populated places established in 1878 |
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