Johannesburg

South Africa / Gauteng / Johannesburg /
Johannesburg is the economic center and largest metropolis of South Africa.Population is 3,900,000.

Johannesburg (pronounced /jō-hān'ĭs-bûrg'/) is the largest and most populous city in South Africa. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa. The city is one of the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the world, it is one of Africa's only two global cities, the other being Cairo according to the Globalization and World Cities group's 1999 inventory, which classified it as a gamma world city. While Johannesburg does not form one of South Africa's three capital cities, it does house the Constitutional Court – South Africa's highest court.

website: www.joburg.org.za
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannesburg
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Coordinates:   26°12'45"S   27°57'57"E

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