Johannesburg

Johannesburg
Johannesburg
	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"
Kintra	Sooth Africae
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	Ceety o Johannesburg
Established	1886
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)
• 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)
GDP	US$ 83.9 billion
GDP per capita	US$ 18,918
Website	www.joburg.org.za

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]

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:^[9]

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

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