Soutpan is a town in
Lejweleputswa District Municipality
The Lejweleputswa District Municipality (; ; ) is one of the 5 districts of the Free State province of South Africa. The seat of the municipality is Welkom. As of 2011, a majority of its 657,019 residents speak Sotho. The district code is DC18. ...
in the
Free State province of
South Africa
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.
Village 45 km west of
Brandfort
Brandfort, officially renamed Winnie Mandela in 2021, is a small agricultural town in the central Free State (province), Free State province of South Africa, about 60 km northeast of Bloemfontein on the R30 (South Africa), R30 road. The town s ...
, just north of
Florisbad
Florisbad is a health resort 45 km northwest of Bloemfontein
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. Afrikaans for ‘salt pan or depression’, the name is derived from a large geographical feature of that type, on the slopes of which the
Florisbad archaeological site is situated.
References
Populated places in the Masilonyana Local Municipality
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