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Trompsburg

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Background
References

{{Infobox settlement
| name = Trompsburg
| image_skyline = Town_Hall_-_Trompsburg-001.jpg
| image_caption = Trompsburg town hall
| pushpin_map = South Africa Free State#South Africa
| coordinates = {{coord|30|1|S|25|46|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 = Xhariep
| subdivision_type3 = Municipality
| subdivision_name3 = Kopanong
| subdivision_type4 = Main Place
| established_title = Established
| government_type = Municipality
| leader_party = ANC
| leader_title = Mayor
| leader_name = Xolile Mathwa ^[1]
| area_footnotes = ^[2]
| area_total_km2 = 16.2
| population_footnotes = ^[2]
| population_total = 5338
| population_as_of = 2011
| population_density_km2 = auto
| demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011)
| demographics1_footnotes = ^[2]
| demographics1_title1 = Black African
| demographics1_info1 = 70.2%
| demographics1_title2 = Coloured
| demographics1_info2 = 22.1%
| demographics1_title3 = Indian/Asian
| demographics1_info3 = 0.5%
| demographics1_title4 = White
| demographics1_info4 = 6.6%
| demographics1_title5 = Other
| demographics1_info5 = 0.6%
| demographics_type2 = First languages (2011)
| demographics2_footnotes = ^[2]
| demographics2_title1 = Sotho
| demographics2_info1 = 41.3%
| demographics2_title2 = Afrikaans
| demographics2_info2 = 35.7%
| demographics2_title3 = Xhosa
| demographics2_info3 = 15.7%
| demographics2_title4 = English
| demographics2_info4 = 1.8%
| demographics2_title5 = Other
| demographics2_info5 = 5.5%
| timezone1 = SAST
| utc_offset1 = +2
| postal_code_type = Postal code (street)
| postal_code = 9913
| postal2_code_type = PO box
| postal2_code = 9913
| area_code_type = Area code
| area_code = 051
}}

Trompsburg is a town in the Free State province of South Africa off the N1 highway, the major road connection between Johannesburg and Cape Town.

Background

The town is 120 km south-west of Bloemfontein and 56 km north-east of Philippolis. It was laid out in 1891 on the farm Middelwater and attained municipal status in 1902. Named after the owners of the farm, Jan and Bastiaan Tromp.^[3]{{rp|352}} It was at first called Jagersfontein Road, then Hamilton, in honour of Sir Hamilton John Goold-Adams (1858–1920), Lieutenant-Governor of the Orange River Colony from 1901 to 1910.^[4]

References

1. ^Free State Tourism.org {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106174825/http://www.freestatetourism.org/Towns/Trompsburg.php?town=Trompsburg |date=2014-01-06 }}
2. ^¹²³Sum of the Main Places Madikgetla and Trompsburg from Census 2011.
3. ^{{Cite book |title=The Tourist in South Africa |last=Conolly |first=Denis |publisher=Travel-Guide (PTY) LTD |year=1975 |asin=B0000E7XZN}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)|url=https://archive.org/details/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames|publisher=Human Science Research Council|page=438}}

{{Geographic Location
|Centre = Trompsburg
|North = Edenburg
|Northwest = Fauresmith, Jagersfontein
|Northeast =
|East = Smithfield
|Southeast = Bethulie
|South = Springfontein
|Southwest = Philippolis
|West =
}}{{Xhariep District Municipality}}

3 : Populated places in the Kopanong Local Municipality|Populated places established in 1891|1891 establishments in South Africa

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