Coligny, North West

Coligny, North West
Coligny
Coligny is located in North West
Coligny
Coordinates: 26°20′S 26°19′E / 26.333°S 26.317°E / -26.333; 26.317
Country  South Africa
Province North West Province
District
Time zone SAST (UTC+2)

Coligny is a maize farming town situated next to the railway line between Lichtenburg and Johannesburg in North West Province of South Africa.

It was founded as Treurfontein ("spring of sadness") but renamed to Coligny in 1923, after the Huguenot leader Admiral Gaspard de Coligny.

Coordinates: 26°20′S 26°19′E / 26.333°S 26.317°E / -26.333; 26.317


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