Venterspos
Venterspos is a town in West Rand District Municipality in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It was proclaimed in 1937.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westonaria and West Rand.
Westonaria
Suburb
Westonaria is a town in the west of Gauteng province of South Africa. It is situated in the Rand West City Local Municipality, part of the West Rand District Municipality. Westonaria is situated 6 km southeast of Venterspos.
West Rand
The West Rand is the urban western part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation. This area became settled by Europeans after a gold-bearing reef discovered in 1886 and sparked the gold rush that gave rise to the establishment of Johannesburg.
Bekkersdal
Suburb
Photo: Wesley Fester, CC BY 2.0.
Bekkersdal is a township situated 7 km east of Westonaria and 14 km south of Randfontein in the Gauteng province. It was established in 1945, to house Africans who worked in town and at the surrounding gold mines. Bekkersdal is situated 8 km east of Venterspos.
Venterspos
- Type: Suburb
- Description: human settlement in South Africa
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Westonaria, West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.26806° or 26° 16′ 5″ southLongitude
27.62167° or 27° 37′ 18″ eastElevation
1,572 metres (5,157 feet)Open location code
5G59PJJC+QMOpenStreetMap ID
node 262718242OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Persian—“Venterspos” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Venterspos”
- Asturian: “Venterspos”
- Cebuano: “Venterspost”
- Dutch: “Venterspos”
- Estonian: “Venterspos”
- Pedi: “Venterspos”
- Persian: “ونترسپس”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Venterspos”. Photo: Profberger, CC BY-SA 3.0.