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  2. Krugersdorp - Wikipedia

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    Krugersdorp (Afrikaans for Kruger's Town) is a mining city in the West Rand, Gauteng Province, South Africa founded in 1887 [2] by Marthinus Pretorius and Abner Cohen. [3] Following the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand , a need arose for a major town in the west of the reef.

  3. Munsieville - Wikipedia

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    Munsieville is a township situated in the Krugersdorp area in Gauteng Province, South Africa. It grew out of the informal settlements inhabited by mine laborers on the outskirts of the original mining town of Krugersdorp. The township was established by ordinance 58 of 1903 of the Krugersdorp municipality and called "the native location".

  4. List of administrative divisions by country - Wikipedia

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    30 metropolitan municipalities (consolidated province-municipalities) 519 consolidated district-municipalities: Turkmenistan: Unitary 5 regions (welaýatlar) (also known as provinces) 37 districts (etraplar) 7 cities with district status? Ashgabat, the capital city-region 4 boroughs or districts (uly etraplar) (as of 2018) Tuvalu: Unitary 9 ...

  5. Illinois Country - Wikipedia

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    The Illinois Country (French: Pays des Illinois [pɛ.i dez‿i.ji.nwa]; lit. ' land of the Illinois people '; Spanish: País de los ilinueses), also referred to as Upper Louisiana (French: Haute-Louisiane [ot.lwi.zjan]; Spanish: Alta Luisiana), was a vast region of New France claimed in the 1600s that later fell under Spanish and British control before becoming what is now part of the ...

  6. Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Illinois 2020 Population Density Map. Illinois is the most populous state in the Midwest region. Chicago, the third-most populous city in the United States, is the center of the Chicago metropolitan area or Chicagoland, as this area is nicknamed.

  7. Great Lakes region - Wikipedia

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    Paleo-Indian cultures were the earliest in North America, with a presence in the Great Plains and Great Lakes areas from about 12,000 BCE to around 8,000 BCE. [citation needed] Prior to European settlement, Iroquoian people lived around Lakes Erie and Ontario, [2] Algonquian peoples around most of the rest, and a variety of other indigenous nation-peoples including the Menominee, Ojibwa ...

  8. Kane County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Kane County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.According to the 2020 census, it has a population of 516,522, [2] making it the fifth-most populous county in Illinois. . Its county seat is Geneva, [3] and its largest city is Aur

  9. Cumberland County, Illinois - Wikipedia

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    Cumberland County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,450. [1] Its county seat is Toledo. [2] Cumberland County is part of the Charleston–Mattoon, IL Micropolitan Statistical Area.