johannesburg

     

Coorinates: 26°12′16″S, 28°2′44″E

Trivia about johannesburg

  • Africa's most populous city not on a navigable body of water; its settlers didn't need water when they had gold
  • Jo'burg is a nickname for this city founded in the 1880s
  • Rand Afrikaans University
  • In 1996 this South African city's airport, code JNB, surpassed Cairo's as the busiest in Africa
  • Most of New York's sisters are world capitals--but not this largest south African city
  • The metro area of this city in South Africa includes over 400 suburbs, including Soweto
  • Louis Botha Avenue,Miriam Makeba Street,Jan Smuts Avenue
  • The name of this South African city honors someone's first name; there's dispute over which of 3 Dutchmen it was

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