Bloemfontein, South Africa - Monument Road - postcard, stamp 1908 pmk

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• Picture / Image:  Monument Road (from top) - Bloemfontein
• Publisher: JD & Co., Bloemfontein
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Bloemfontein (/ˈbluːmfɒnteɪn/;^[3][4] Afrikaans: [ˈblumfɔntəi̯n]; Afrikaans and Dutch "fountain of flowers" or "blooming fountain"; also known as Bloem) is the capital city of the province of Free State of South Africa; and, as the judicialcapital of the nation,^{[citation needed]} one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.^[5] Situated at an altitude of 1,395 m (4,577 ft) above sea level, the city is home to approximately 520,000^[5] residents and forms part of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality which has a population of 747,431.^[6]

The city of Bloemfontein hosts the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa, the Franklin Game Reserve,^{[citation needed]}Naval Hill, the Maselspoort Resort and the Sand du Plessis Theatre. The city hosts numerous museums, including the National Women´s Monument, the Anglo-Boer War Museum, the National Museum, and the Oliewenhuis Art Museum

Bloemfontein also hosts sub-Saharan Africa's first digital planetarium, the Naval Hill Planetarium and Boyden Observatory, an astronomical research observatory erected by Harvard University.

Bloemfontein is popularly and poetically known as "the city of roses", for its abundance of these flowers and the annual rose festival held there.^[7][8] The city's Setswana name is Mangaung, meaning "place of cheetahs".

Bloemfontein is located in central South Africa on the southern edge of the Highveld at an elevation of 1,400 metres (4,600 ft), bordering on the semi-arid region of the Karoo. The area is generally flat with occasional hills (koppies in Afrikaans) and the general vegetation is Highveld grassland. Bloemfontein experiences a semi-arid climate (Köppen: BSk ), with hot summer days and cooler, dry winters, often with frosts. Snow is rare but as recently as August 2006 it snowed in the city, with snowfalls occurring again at the airport on 26 July 2007.