Bloemfontein (zaf)

Bloemfontein

Bloemfontein ranks 1,765th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Tarbes, Nova Iguaçu, and King's Lynn. Memorable people born in Bloemfontein include J. R. R. Tolkien, Ernest Leonard Johnson, and Griselda Pollock. Memorable people who died in Bloemfontein include C. R. Swart, Esther Brand, and Karel Schoeman. Bloemfontein has been the birth place of many athletes, and writers and the death place of many politicians, and athletes. Bloemfontein is located in South Africa.

Bloemfontein, also known as Bloem, is the capital and the largest city of the Free State province in South Africa. It is often, and has been traditionally, referred to as the country's "judicial capital", alongside the legislative capital Cape Town and administrative capital Pretoria, although the highest court in South Africa, the Constitutional Court, has been in Johannesburg since 1994. Read more on Wikipedia