Kroonstad Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
city in the Free State, South Africa
About Kroonstad
It is the third largest city in the Free State (after Bloemfontein and Welkom). Maokeng is an area within Kroonstad, and is occasionally used as a synonym of the town. Maokeng is Sesotho and means "place of the thorn trees (mimosa trees)". In Afrikaans, Kroonstad mean "Crown City". While Kroon means "crown", this was in fact the name of a horse that had drowned in the nearby ford. A lover of animals, Orpen had witnessed the incident, and named the infant settlement in honour of the unfortunate creature. The Bloemhoek Dam lies just east of the town and supplies much of its water needs.
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