Orlando
Orlando is a township in the urban area of Soweto, South Africa. The township was founded in 1931 and named after Edwin Orlando Leake, mayor of Johannesburg from 1925 to 1926. It is divided in two main areas: Orlando West and Orlando East.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Suburb
- Description: place in Gauteng, South Africa
- Also known as: “Orlando, Soweto”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Orlando Stadium and Hector Pieterson Museum.
Orlando Stadium
Stadium
Photo: 2010 World Cup - Shine 2010, CC BY 2.0.
Orlando Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Soweto, a township in Johannesburg, in Gauteng province in South Africa. It is the home venue for Orlando Pirates Football Club, a professional soccer team that plays in the Premier Soccer League and owned by the City of Johannesburg.
Hector Pieterson Museum
Museum
Photo: Babak Fakhamzadeh, CC BY 2.0.
The Hector Pieterson Museum is a museum located in Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa. Located two blocks away from where student protester Hector Pieterson was shot and killed on 16 June 1976, the museum is named in his honour and covers the events of the anti-Apartheid Soweto Uprising and Massacre, where more than 170 protesting school children were killed.
Mandela House
Museum
Photo: Moongateclimber, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Nelson Mandela National Museum, commonly referred to as Mandela House, is the house on Vilakazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela lived from 1946 to 1962.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soweto and Dobsonville.
Soweto
Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Soweto is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Soweto is an increasingly popular destination for travellers from around the world, and is home of the Nelson Mandela National Museum.
Dobsonville
Suburb
Dobsonville is a township in greater Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies to the west of Meadowlands, a part of Diepmeadow, and is adjacent to Mofolo North and Zondi, which are suburbs of Soweto on its southern border. Dobsonville is situated 4½ km west of Orlando.
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. Claremont is situated 6 km northeast of Orlando.
Orlando
Latitude
-26.22254° or 26° 13′ 21″ southLongitude
27.91175° or 27° 54′ 42″ eastElevation
1,639 metres (5,377 feet)Open location code
5G59QWG6+XPOpenStreetMap ID
node 1371671309OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Orlando from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Turkish—“Orlando” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Orlando, Soweto”
- Afrikaans: “Orlando”
- Armenian: “Օռլանդո Սոուետո”
- Catalan: “Orlando”
- Chinese: “奧蘭多”
- Dutch: “Orlando, Soweto”
- French: “Orlando”
- German: “Orlando”
- Greek: “Ορλάντο”
- Indonesian: “Orlando, Soweto”
- Italian: “Orlando East”
- Italian: “Orlando West”
- Italian: “Orlando, Soweto”
- Italian: “Orlando”
- Italian: “Regina Mundi”
- Japanese: “オーランド”
- Japanese: “オルランド”
- Pedi: “Orlando, Soweto”
- Russian: “Орландо (ЮАР)”
- Russian: “Орландо”
- Swati: “Orlando, Soweto”
- Tsonga: “Orlando West”
- Turkish: “Orlando”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Orlando”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Orlando West and Meadowlands East Zone 3.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lebo’s Soweto Backpackers and Thabaneng Primary School.
Gauteng: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Johannesburg, Pretoria, Soweto, and O.R. Tambo International Airport.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
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 “Orlando”. Photo: Profberger, CC BY-SA 3.0.