Motheo

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District area until 2011
District coat of arms

The district (District Municipality) Motheo was until 2011 part of the province of Free State in South Africa . Around 800,000 people lived in an area of ​​13,997 km² (as of 2007). The capital was Bloemfontein . The district name is the Sesotho word for foundation stone .

In 2011 Mangaung became part of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality of the same name , while Mantsopa came to the Thabo Mofutsanyana district and Naledi to Xhariep . Naledi also joined the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality in 2016.

Community structure

As an example of the infrastructure here is the water supply for households (HWA = own domestic water connection; ÖWA = public water connection nearby; KWA = no connection to a water supply network):

Municipality at the time of the survey Administrative headquarters surface Residents HWA Ö WA KWA
Naledi Dewetsdorp 3,424 km² 27,471 7% 78% 15%
Mantsopa Ladybrand 4,291 km² 55,334 10% 73% 17%
Mangaung Bloemfontein 6,284 km² 645.430 13% 82% 5%

National parks and nature reserves

  • Franklin Nature Reserve
  • Caledon Nature Reserve

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Administrative boundaries of South Africa  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.demarcation.org.za  
  2. ↑ Meaning of the name municipalities
  3. ↑ Municipal statistics South Africa  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.demarcation.org.za  

Coordinates: 29 ° 7 ′  S , 26 ° 13 ′  E