Johannesburg
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| Eik-name(s): Joburg; Jozi; Egoli (Place o Gowd); Gauteng (Place o Gowd); Maboneng (Ceety o Lichts) | |||||
| Motto: "Unity in development"[1] | |||||
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| Coordinates: 26°12′16″S 28°2′44″E / 26.20444°S 28.04556°E | |||||
| Kintra | Sooth Africae | ||||
| Province | Gauteng | ||||
| Municipality | City of Johannesburg | ||||
| Region | [[Regions o Johannesburg|Template:Metadata South Africa/Joburg regions]] | ||||
| Established | 1886[2] | ||||
| Govrenment | |||||
| - Mayor | Parks Tau (ANC)[3] | ||||
| Aurie[4] | |||||
| - Ceety | 508.69 km2 (196.4 sq mi) | ||||
| - Metro | 1,644.96 km2 (635.1 sq mi) | ||||
| Hicht | 1,753 m (5,751 ft) | ||||
| Indwallers (2001 city; 2007 metro)[4] | |||||
| - Ceety | 1,009,035 | ||||
| - Densitie | 1,983.6/km2 (5,137.5/sq mi) | ||||
| - Metro[5] | 3,888,180 | ||||
| - Metro densitie |
2,363.7/km2 (6,121.9/sq mi) | ||||
| Racial makeup (2001)[4] | |||||
| - Black African | 48.7% | ||||
| - Coloured | 17.1% | ||||
| - Indian/Asian | 11.2% | ||||
| - White | 22.9% | ||||
| First languages (2001)[4] | |||||
| - Inglis | 37.1% | ||||
| - Zulu | 17.3% | ||||
| - Afrikaans | 16.0% | ||||
| - Sotho | 5.7% | ||||
| - Other | 23.9% | ||||
| Time zone | SAST (UTC+2) | ||||
| Aurie code(s) | 011 | ||||
| Wabsteid | joburg.org.za | ||||
Johannesburg (English: /dʒoʊˈhænɪsbɜrɡ/, Afrikaans: [joˈhɑnəsbʏrx]) an aa kent as Jozi, Jo'burg or eGoli, is the lairgest ceety in Sooth Africae. Johannesburg is the provincial caipital o Gauteng, the weelthiest province in Sooth Africae, haein the lairgest economy o ony metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africae. The ceety is ane o the 40 lairgest metropolitan auries in the warld,[6] an is an aa the warld's lairgest ceety na situatit on a river, lake, or coastline.[7]
While Johannesburg is no offeecially ane o Sooth Africae's three caipital ceeties, it does hoose the Constitutional Court Sooth Africae's heichest court. The ceety is the source o a lairge-scale gowd an diamond trade, due tae its location on the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range o hills. Johannesburg is served bi O.R. Tambo Internaitional Airport, the lairgest an busiest airport in Africae an a gateway for internaitional air travel tae an frae the rest o soothren Africae. Mair recently Lanseria Internaitional Airport haes stairtit internaitional flichts an is situatit conveniently on the opposite side o the metropolis.
Accordin tae the 2007 Community Survey, the population o the municipal ceety wis 3,888,180 an the population o the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area wis 7,151,447. A broader definition o the Johannesburg metropolitan aurie, includin Ekhuruleni, the Wast Rand, Soweto an Lenasia, haes a population o 10,267,700. The municipal ceety's land aurie o 1,645 km2 (635 sq mi) is very lairge when compared tae ither ceeties, resultin in a moderate population density o 2,364 /km2 (6,120 /sq mi).
Johannesburg includes Soweto, which wis a separate ceety frae the late 1970s until the 1990s. Oreeginally an acronym for "SOuth-WEstern TOwnships", Soweto oreeginatit as a collection o settlements on the ootskirts o Johannesburg populated maistly bi native African wirkers in the gowd minin industry. Eventually incorporatit intae Johannesburg, the apartheid regime (in pouer 1949–1994) separatit Soweto frae the rest o Johannesburg tae make it a completely Black aurie. Lenasie is nou an aa pairt o Johannesburg an is an aurie predominantly populatit bi those o Indian ethnicity syne the apartheid era.
Gauteng is growin rapidly due tae mass urbanisation which is a feature o mony developin kintras. Accordin tae the State o the Ceeties Report, the urban portion o Gauteng comprisin primarily the ceeties o Johannesburg, Ekurhuleni (the East Rand) an Tshwane (greater Pretoria) will be a polycentric urban region wi a projectit population o some 14.6 million fowk bi 2015.
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Internaitional relations [edit]
Twin touns — sister ceeties [edit]
Johannesburg's twin touns an sister ceeties are:[8]
| Kintra | Ceety |
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Addis Ababa |
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Baku |
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Birmingham |
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Lunnon |
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Mumbai |
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New Delhi |
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New York Ceety |
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Windhoek |
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São Paulo |
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Rio de Janeiro |
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Kathmandu |
References [edit]
- ↑ Johannesburg (South Africa). Crwflags.com. Retrieved on 9 Dizember 2010. .
- ↑ Chronological order of town establishment in South Africa based on Floyd (1960:20-26) pp. xlv-lii.
- ↑ City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. Gauteng Department of Local Government. Retrieved on 29 September 2008. .
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Main Place Johannesburg. Census 2001.
- ↑ Statistics South Africa, Community Survey, 2007, Basic Results Municipalities (pdf-file) Retrieved on 2008-03-23.
- ↑ &Copy; Th. Brinkhoff (2010-01-23). Principal Agglomerations of the World. Citypopulation.de. Retrieved on 2 Julie 2010. .
- ↑ Johannesburg. Southafrica.to. Retrieved on 2 Julie 2010. .
- ↑ Twinning agreements. Making Joburg an entry point into Africa. City of Johannesburg. Retrieved on 28 August 2009. .
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