Johannesburg
Johannesburg (Template:IPA-en, Template:IPA-nl) 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,[1] an is an aa the warld's lairgest ceety na situatit on a river, lake, or coastline.[2]
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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[edit] Internaitional relations
[edit] Twin touns — sister ceeties
Johannesburg's twin touns an sister ceeties are:[3]
| 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 |
[edit] References
- ↑ &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. .
[edit] Freemit airtins
Template:Sister project links Govrenment
Other
- Gauteng Tourism Authority
- Johannesburg on Birmingham's Pairtner Ceety page
- Johannesburg Tourism offeecial wabsteid
- Travel guide tae Johannesburg frae Wikitravel
