Boskop

Boskop
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Coordinates: 26.564°S 27.140°E / -26.564; 27.140
Country	South Africa
Province	North West
District	Dr Kenneth Kaunda
Municipality	JB Marks
Area [1]
• Total	18.09 km^2 (6.98 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	184
• Density	10/km^2 (26/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	85.3%
• Coloured	6.0%
• White	8.2%
• Other	0.5%
First languages (2011) [1]
• Tswana	37.5%
• Afrikaans	19.6%
• Xhosa	14.1%
• Zulu	10.9%
• Other	17.9%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box	2528

Boskop is a small village 16 km north of Potchefstroom. In 1913, the Boskop Man was found here, the first local anatomically modern human skull to be discovered. Consisting only of a post office and railway station on the route Potchefstroom-Welverdiend, the name is Afrikaans and means 'bush hill'.^[2]

See also

• Boskop Man

References

1. "Main Place Boskop". Census 2011.
2. Raper, Peter E. (1987). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Internet Archive. p. 89. Retrieved 28 August 2013.