Sandton
Sandton is an affluent suburb and business centre in Johannesburg. It is home to the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, a number of large financial institutions and the largest shopping centre in South Africa.Photo: Andresdewet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Bizcallers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Nelson Mandela Square and Sandton.
Nelson Mandela Square
Shopping center
Photo: Britfan97, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nelson Mandela Square is a shopping centre in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa. It includes a large open area built to resemble a traditional European town square, and an office complex.
Sandton
Railway station
Photo: Nolween, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sandton is a metro station on the Gautrain rapid transit system in Sandton, Gauteng. It opened to traffic on 8 June 2010 with service to OR Tambo International Airport.
Sandton Public Library
Library
Sandton Library is a public library within Nelson Mandela Square in Sandton, Johannesburg, South Africa. It opened in 1994. It is part of the City of Johannesburg Library and Information Services' public library network, and has collection of over 92,000 items, including books, audiobooks, and various periodicals.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Inanda and Illovo.
Inanda
Suburb
Inanda is a suburb of Sandton, South Africa. It is situated in Region E, on Rivonia Road about 1.5 km from Sandton City. The suburb contains the Inanda Club, an elite equestrian and Polo establishment and St David's Marist Inanda, a primary and high school with a combined intake of over 1100 pupils.
Illovo
Suburb
Illovo is a suburb of Sandton, South Africa. It borders Hyde Park, Sandhurst, Inanda and Melrose. Illovo is sought after and home to many young professionals and creatives because of its close proximity to Sandton and Johannesburg business centres and many affordable apartment blocks.
Sandton
- Type: City with 222,000 residents
- Description: area situated within the metro of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
- Categories: central business district, suburb, and locality
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-26.10455° or 26° 6′ 16″ southLongitude
28.05452° or 28° 3′ 16″ eastPopulation
222,000Elevation
1,626 metres (5,335 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA SDTOpen location code
5G5CV3W3+5ROpenStreetMap ID
node 5283928101OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
Discover Sandton from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Sandton” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sandton”
- Arabic: “ساندتون”
- Armenian: “Սանդտոն”
- Asturian: “Sandton”
- Bulgarian: “Сандтон”
- Catalan: “Sandton”
- Cebuano: “Sandton”
- Chinese: “桑頓 (南非)”
- Chinese: “桑顿”
- Czech: “Sandton”
- Danish: “Sandton”
- Dutch: “Sandton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ساندتون”
- Estonian: “Sandton”
- French: “Sandton”
- German: “Sandton”
- Greek: “Σάντον”
- Greek: “Σάνττον”
- Hebrew: “סנדטון”
- Indonesian: “Sandton”
- Irish: “Sandton”
- Italian: “Sandton”
- Japanese: “サントン”
- Korean: “샌튼”
- Macedonian: “Сендтон”
- Malagasy: “Sandton (Afrika Atsimo)”
- Malagasy: “Sandton”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandton”
- Pedi: “Sandton”
- Persian: “سندتون”
- Polish: “Sandton”
- Portuguese: “Sandton”
- Romanian: “Sandton”
- Russian: “Сэндтон”
- Spanish: “Sandton”
- Swedish: “Sandton”
- Urdu: “ساندتون”
- Venetian: “Sandton”
- Xhosa: “Sandton”
- Zulu: “Sandton”
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