Sophiatown
Sophiatown, also known as Sof'town or Kofifi, is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Sophiatown was a poor multi-racial area and a black cultural hub that was destroyed under apartheid.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb
- Description: suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa
- Also known as: “Sophiatown (Triomf)” and “Triomf”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Union Stadium and Westbury Secondary School.
Union Stadium
Stadium
Union Stadium is a municipal multi-sports facility situated in Westbury, Johannesburg, South Africa. It is mostly used for football matches.
Westbury Secondary School
School
Westbury Secondary School or Westbury High School is a secondary school in Westbury, Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2014 officials from the South African Police Service and the Gauteng Department of Education raided the school to combat illegal drugs.
Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital
Hospital
Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital is a maternity hospital in Coronationville, Johannesburg, South Africa. Prior to 2008, it was known as the Coronation Hospital.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westdene and Claremont.
Westdene
Suburb
Westdene is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Westdene lies between the historic suburb of Sophiatown and Melville with the Melville Koppies nature reserve to the north of the suburb.
Claremont
Suburb
Claremont is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, around 9 km west-northwest of City Hall. Under the old municipal borders, it was one of the westernmost suburbs of the city and bordered Roodepoort.
Rossmore
Suburb
Rossmore is a suburb of Johannesburg, around 5 km northwest of City Hall. It borders Langlaagte to the north and Homestead Park. The name comes from the village of Paarlshoop, the oldest private township on the Witwatersrand.
Sophiatown
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-26.175° or 26° 10′ 30″ southLongitude
27.97639° or 27° 58′ 35″ eastElevation
1,730 metres (5,676 feet)Open location code
5G59RXGG+2HOpenStreetMap ID
node 262717983OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Tswana—“Sophiatown” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sophiatown”
- Asturian: “Sophiatown”
- Chinese: “索菲亞鎮”
- Dutch: “Sophiatown”
- Esperanto: “Sophiatown”
- Finnish: “Sophiatown”
- French: “Sophiatown”
- German: “Sophiatown”
- Indonesian: “Sophiatown”
- Italian: “Sophiatown”
- Japanese: “ソフィアタウン”
- Pedi: “Sophiatown”
- Spanish: “Sophiatown”
- Tswana: “Toropo ya Sofia”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include JHB Metro Police Headquarters and Search Park.
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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 “Sophiatown”. Photo: ShiningWolf, CC BY-SA 3.0.