Ladysmith, officially renamed uMnambithi in March 2024, is a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, serving as the seat of the Alfred Duma Local Municipality and the Uthukela District Municipality, about 230 kilometers northwest of Durban. It was established in 1850 and named after Juana Maria de los Dolores de Leon Smith, the Spanish wife of Cape Colony governor Sir Harry Smith. The 2011 census recorded 64,855 residents, and important local industries include food processing, textiles and tyre production. The town gained international prominence during the Second Boer War, when the siege of Ladysmith lasted 118 days from November 1899 to February 1900, a siege at which both Winston Churchill and Mahatma Gandhi were present.
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1. GeoNames: Ladysmith
GeoNames geonameid 984998 (Ladysmith), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal (Wikipedia)
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -28.75, 29.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell -28.75, 29.75
-28.75 29.75 Cwa
4. GeoNames: Ladysmith - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 984998, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 984998, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
-28.55874 29.77896 P PPLA2 ZA 02 DC23 KZN232 143446 1010 Africa/Johannesburg
Ladysmith, South Africa (Wikipedia)
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