Primrose

Primrose is a suburb of Germiston in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, South Africa. It is an old residential area built in the early 1900s, in response to the gold rush.

Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Type: Suburb
Description: human settlement in South Africa
Also known as: “Primrose, South Africa”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bedfordview and Germiston.

Bedfordview

Suburb

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Bedfordview is an affluent suburb in western Ekurhuleni, sharing an administrative boundary with the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa. Bedfordview is situated 2½ km west of Primrose.

Germiston

Town

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Germiston, also known as kwaDukathole, is a city in the East Rand region of Gauteng, South Africa, administratively forming part of the City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality since the latter's establishment in 2000. Germiston is situated 5 km south of Primrose.

Edenvale

Suburb

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Edenvale is a town on the East Rand in Gauteng, South Africa. It is part of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. It lies about halfway between the O.R. Edenvale is situated 6 km north of Primrose.

Primrose

Categories: town and locality
Location: Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude

-26.18417° or 26° 11′ 3″ south

Longitude

28.16694° or 28° 10′ 1″ east

Elevation

1,711 metres (5,614 feet)

United Nations Location Code

ZA ZEI

Open location code

5G5CR588+8Q

OpenStreetMap ID

node 262715083

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

GeoNames ID

964081

Wikidata ID

Q15268605

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Pedi—“Primrose” goes by many names.

Afrikaans: “Primrose”
Asturian: “Primrose, South Africa”
Dutch: “Primrose, South Africa”
Pedi: “Primrose”

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