Coligny, North West

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Coligny is a maize farming town situated next to the railway line between Kimberley 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

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