Randfontein
Randfontein is a gold mining town in the West Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, 40 km west of Johannesburg. With the Witwatersrand gold rush in full swing, mining financier JB Robinson bought the farm Randfontein and, in 1889, floated the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Company.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Leo za1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mohlakeng and Azaadville.
Mohlakeng
Suburb
Mohlakeng is a township west of Johannesburg in Gauteng, South Africa. Mohlakeng is situated 6 km south of Randfontein.
Azaadville
Suburb
Azaadville is a town in South Africa located in Mogale City in the West Rand region of Gauteng province of South Africa. Azaadville is situated 6 km east of Randfontein.
Randfontein
- Type: Town with 134,000 residents
- Description: town
- Category: locality
- Location: Randfontein Local Municipality, West Rand District Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.1736° or 26° 10′ 25″ southLongitude
27.6942° or 27° 41′ 39″ eastPopulation
134,000Elevation
1,716 metres (5,630 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA RFTOpen location code
5G59RMGV+HMOpenStreetMap ID
node 262721988OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Randfontein” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Randfontein”
- Asturian: “Randfontein”
- Catalan: “Randfontein”
- Cebuano: “Randfontein (kapital sa distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Randfontein”
- Chinese: “兰德方丹”
- Chinese: “蘭德方丹”
- Chinese: “蘭德方坦”
- Dutch: “Randfontein”
- Esperanto: “Randfontein”
- Estonian: “Randfontein”
- French: “Randfontein”
- German: “Randfontein”
- Italian: “Randfontein”
- Japanese: “ランドフォンテイン”
- Japanese: “ランドホンテイン”
- Lithuanian: “Randfonteinas”
- Malagasy: “Randfontein”
- Pedi: “Randfontein”
- Polish: “Randfontein”
- Romanian: “Randfontein”
- Russian: “Рандфонтейн”
- Shona: “Randfontein”
- Slovenian: “Randfontein”
- South Ndebele: “IRandfontein”
- Spanish: “Randfontein”
- Swahili: “Randfontein”
- Swedish: “Randfontein”
- Ukrainian: “Рандфонтейн”
- Urdu: “رینڈفونٹین”
- Xhosa: “Randfontein”
- Zulu: “Randfontein”
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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 “Randfontein”. Photo: Leo za1, CC BY-SA 3.0.