Johannesburg

Johannesburg or Jo’burg, as the locals call the city of the gold, is the biggest metropolis in South Africa. With its 3,2 million citizens (sensus in 2001) the city on the Witwatersrand is the predominant commercial centre and the economic motor of the Republic of South Africa. One fifth of the country’s Gross Domestic Product is being produced in Johannesburg. More than half of its population live in the suburbs of Soweto, Diepkloof and Orange Farm south-west of the city.

Johannesburg is the centre of the Gauteng Province, a densely populated Mega-metropolis with numerous satellite towns as well as the South African capital of Pretoria. The population of Gauteng exceeds 8 million people by now.

Johannesburg’s economical backbone still is the gold industry. Only a few of the initial mining oprations in Johannesburg are still active in the city area, but the former mines and the mine dumps had a lasting impact on the appearance of the urban landscape and the industrial structure.

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