Roodepoort
Roodepoort is a city in the Gauteng province of South Africa. Formerly an independent municipality, Roodepoort became part of the Johannesburg municipality in the late 1990s, along with Randburg and Sandton.
- Type: City with 325,000 residents
- Description: town in South Africa
- Also known as: “Roodeport-Maraisburg”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kloofendal Nature Reserve.
Kloofendal Nature Reserve
Nature reserve
Kloofendal Nature Reserve is a municipal nature reserve in Roodepoort, South Africa. It is one of the first nature reserves in Johannesburg. It is also recognized as the place where gold was first mined in Johannesburg.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Weltevredenpark.
Weltevredenpark
Suburb
Weltevredenpark is a suburb of Roodepoort, South Africa adjacent to Johannesburg. It is situated roughly between Beyers Naudé Drive and Hendrik Potgieter Road.
Roodepoort
- Categories: town, big city, and locality
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-26.1567° or 26° 9′ 24″ south
Longitude
27.8856° or 27° 53′ 8″ east
Population
325,000
Elevation
1,738 metres (5,702 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ZA RDP
Open location code
5G59RVVP+86
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Roodepoort” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Roodepoort”
- Arabic: “روديبورت”
- Asturian: “Roodepoort”
- Azerbaijani: “Rudepurt”
- Belarusian: “Рудэпурт”
- Bengali: “রুডেপোর্ট”
- Catalan: “Roodepoort”
- Cebuano: “Roodepoort”
- Chinese: “魯德普特”
- Czech: “Roodepoort”
- Danish: “Roodepoort”
- Dutch: “Roodepoort”
- Egyptian Arabic: “روديبورت”
- Estonian: “Roodepoort”
- Finnish: “Roodepoort”
- French: “Roodepoort”
- German: “Roodepoort”
- Greek: “Ρούντερπορτ”
- Gujarati: “રૂડેપોર્ટ”
- Hebrew: “רודפורט”
- Hindi: “रोएडपोोर्ट”
- Indonesian: “Roodepoort”
- Irish: “Roodepoort”
- Italian: “Roodepoort”
- Japanese: “ロードポート”
- Kannada: “ರೂಡ್ ಪೋರ್ಟ್”
- Korean: “로데포르트”
- Latvian: “Rūdeporta”
- Lithuanian: “Rodeportas”
- Malagasy: “Roodepoort”
- Malay: “Roodepoort”
- Marathi: “रुडेपुर्ट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Roodepoort”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Roodepoort”
- Pedi: “Roodepoort”
- Polish: “Roodepoort”
- Portuguese: “Roodepoort”
- Romanian: “Roodepoort”
- Russian: “Рудепурт”
- Sinhala: “රූඩේපූර්ට්”
- Slovak: “Roodepoort”
- Spanish: “Roodepoort”
- Swedish: “Roodepoort”
- Tamil: “ரூடிபூர்ட்”
- Telugu: “రూడేపోర్ట్”
- Thai: “โรเดอโปร์ต”
- Tswana: “Rodipoto”
- Turkish: “Roodepoort”
- Ukrainian: “Рудепурт”
- Urdu: “رودیپورت”
- Urdu: “روڈیپورٹ”
- Venetian: “Roodepoort”
- Vietnamese: “Roodepoort”
- Waray (Philippines): “Roodepoort”
- Xhosa: “Roodepoort”
- Zulu: “Roodepoort”
- “Roodepoort”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
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