Soutpan

Place in Free State, South Africa
28°44′46″S 26°04′19″E / 28.746°S 26.072°E / -28.746; 26.072CountrySouth AfricaProvinceFree StateDistrictLejweleputswaMunicipalityMasilonyanaArea • Total44.79 km2 (17.29 sq mi)Population
 (2011)[1]
 • Total186 • Density4.2/km2 (11/sq mi)Racial makeup (2011) • Black African29.7% • White70.3%First languages (2011) • Afrikaans80.0% • Sotho8.1% • Tswana7.0% • English4.9%Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)PO box
9356
Area code051

Soutpan is a town in Lejweleputswa District Municipality in the Free State province of South Africa.

Village 45 km west of Brandfort, just north of Florisbad. 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.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Sub Place Soutpan". Census 2011.
  2. ^ "Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)". Human Science Research Council. p. 411.


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