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Johannesburg (Inglis: /dʒoʊˈhænɪsbɜrɡ/, Afrikaans: [joˈhɑnəsbʏrx]) forbye kent as Jozi, Jo'burg or eGoli, is the mucklest ceety in Sooth Africae. Johannesburg is the provincial caipital o Gauteng, the weelthiest province in Sooth Africae, haein the mucklest economy o ony metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africae. The ceety is ane o the 40 mucklest metropolitan auries in the warld,[7] an is the warld's mucklest ceety that isna situatit on a river, loch, or coastline.[8]
Johannesburg | |
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| City of Johannesburg | |
Clockwise, frae tap: Johannesburg Airt Gailerie, the Hillbrow skyline at nicht, Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton, Johannesburg CBD leukin east ower the M1 Freewey, the Varsity o the Witwatersrand's East Campus an Montecasino in Fourways. | |
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| Eik-name(s): Jo'burg; Jozi; Mudi Mulila Ngoma (Venda version), Joni (Tsonga version); Egoli (Place o Gowd); Gauteng (Place o Gowd) | |
| Motto(s): "Unity in development"[1] | |
| Kintra | Sooth Africae |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | Ceety o Johannesburg |
| Established | 1886[2] |
| Govrenment | |
| • Teep | Metropolitan municipality |
| • Mayor | Mpho Phalatse (DA) |
| Area | |
| • City | 334.81 km2 (129.27 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1753 m (5,751 ft) |
| Population (2011)[3] | |
| • City | 957,441 |
| • Density | 2,900/km2 (7,400/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 9,616,000 |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 64.2% |
| • Coloured | 13.9% |
| • Indian/Asian | 6.7% |
| • White | 13.9% |
| • Other | 1.3% |
| First leids (2011) | |
| • Inglis | 31.1% |
| • Zulu | 19.6% |
| • Afrikaans | 12.1% |
| • Xhosa | 5.2% |
| • Other | 31.9% |
| Postal code (street) | 2001 |
| PO box | 2000 |
| Aurie code | 011 |
| HDI |  0.75 High (2012)[5] |
| GDP | US$ 83.9 billion[6] |
| GDP per capita | US$ 18,918[6] |
| Website | www |
While Johannesburg isnae 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 muckle-scale gowd an diamond trade, due tae its location on the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range o braes. Johannesburg is served bi O.R. Tambo Internaitional Airport, the mucklest 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 conter 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 braider 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 vera muckle whan compared tae ither ceeties, resultin in a moderate population density o 2,364 /km2 (6,120 /sq mi).
Johannesburg includes Soweto, that wis a separate ceety frae the late 1970s til the 1990s. Oreeginally an acronym for "SOuth-WEstern TOwnships", Soweto oreeginatit as a collection o settlements outby fae Johannesburg populatit 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 for tae mak it a complete Black aurie. Lenasie is nou pairt o Johannesburg an aw an is an aurie predominantly populatit bi those o Indian ethnicity syne the apartheid era.
Gauteng is grawin rapidly due tae mass urbanisation that 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.
Johannesburg's twin touns an sister ceeties are:[9]
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