Balfour, Mpumalanga

Balfour
Skyline photo of central Balfour
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Coordinates: 26°39′S 28°35′E / 26.650°S 28.583°E / -26.650; 28.583Coordinates: 26°39′S 28°35′E / 26.650°S 28.583°E / -26.650; 28.583
Country	South Africa
Province	Mpumalanga
District	Gert Sibande
Municipality	Dipaleseng
Established	1898
Area
• Total	12.06 km2 (4.66 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	3,201
• Density	270/km2 (690/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	50.2%
• Coloured	1.4%
• Indian/Asian	9.4%
• White	38.4%
• Other	0.6%
First languages (2011)
• Afrikaans	38.6%
• Zulu	23.1%
• English	15.4%
• Sotho	12.3%
• Other	10.7%
Postal code (street)	2410
PO box	2410
Area code	017

Balfour is a small gold mining and maize farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa.

The town and post office, some 80 km southeast of Johannesburg, were established on the farms Vlakfontein No. 101 and No. 108 which belonged to Frederick Stuart McHattie, and named McHattiesburg after him in 1897. Proclaimed on 16 February 1898, it was renamed Balfour on 15 February 1905, after Arthur James Balfour, Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1902-1905, who visited South Africa in that year.