Johannesburg

Johannesburg (, ) 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, an is the warld's mucklest ceety that isna situatit on a river, loch, or coastline.

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.

 Internaitional relations 
 Twin touns — sister ceeties 
Johannesburg's twin touns an sister ceeties are:

 Kintra Ceety  Addis Ababa  Baku  Birmingham  Lunnon  Mumbai  New Delhi  New York Ceety  Windhoek  São Paulo  Rio de Janeiro  Kathmandu

 References 

 Freemit airtins 

Govrenment
 Offeecial wabsteid o the Ceety o Johannesburg
 Gauteng Provincial Govrenment 

Other
 Gauteng Tourism Authority
 Johannesburg on Birmingham's Pairtner Ceety page 
 Johannesburg Tourism offeecial wabsteid 


Category:Johannesburg
Category:Ceeties in Sooth Africae
Category:Populatit places in Gauteng
Category:Provincial caipitals in Sooth Africae
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