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Bophuthatswana (former administrative division) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 26 00 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -26.0000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 025 35 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 25.5833 decimal degrees |
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Note: The area of the former self-governing black homeland composed of several non-contiguous sections within the borders of Cape, Orange Free State & Transvaal provinces, in the Republic of South Africa; independence was not recognized internationally; traditional homeland of the Tswana people; main languages are English, Afrikaans & Setswana. |
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| Bophuthatswana (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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............ | from "bophutha," meaning "that which binds" in local Tswana |
| Bop (C,V)
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| former administrative division (preferred, C) |
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| general region (C) |
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| autonomous area (H) |
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self-governing from 1971, was reincorporated into South Africa in 1994 under new constitution that abolished apartheid system |
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