Benoni
Ekurhuleni is the eastern part of the Gauteng province. It is part of the Johannesburg metropolitan area, and includes suburbs such as Modderfontein, Greenstone, Edenvale, Bedfordview, Benoni, Germiston, Springs, Boksburg and Brakpan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 159,000 residents
- Description: Town in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa
- Also known as: “Benoni, South Africa” and “City of Lakes, Son of my sorrow”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Willowmoore Park and St. Dunstan’s College.
Willowmoore Park
Sports venue
Willowmoore Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Benoni, South Africa. It is currently used mostly for cricket matches and hosted two matches during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. The stadium holds 20,000 people. It opened in 1924.
St. Dunstan’s College
School
St. Dunstan's College is an Anglican private school in the Diocese of the Highveld in Benoni, Gauteng. St. Dunstan’s College is situated 5 km north of Benoni.
Boksburg High School
School
Boksburg High School is a public high school in Boksburg, a suburb of Ekurhuleni, South Africa. The school was founded in 1920 as the Rand East Training and Preparatory College under its first Principal, Mr Charter. Boksburg High School is situated 6 km southwest of Benoni.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Boksburg and Brakpan.
Boksburg
Town
Photo: Simisa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Boksburg is a city on the East Rand of Gauteng province of South Africa. Gold was discovered in Boksburg in 1887. Boksburg was named after the State Secretary of the South African Republic, W. Boksburg is situated 5 km southwest of Benoni.
Brakpan
Town
Photo: Leo za1, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Brakpan is a mining town on the East Rand of Gauteng, South Africa, approximately 38 kilometres east of Johannesburg. Brakpan is situated 8 km southeast of Benoni.
Wattville
Suburb
Wattville is a township south of Benoni in Ekurhuleni Metropolitan municipality, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1941, and by 1948, 400 houses were built on 34 hectares.
Benoni
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-26.193° or 26° 11′ 35″ southLongitude
28.3082° or 28° 18′ 30″ eastPopulation
159,000Elevation
1,641 metres (5,384 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA BNIOpen location code
5G5CR845+Q7OpenStreetMap ID
node 262719247OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Xhosa—“Benoni” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Benoni”
- Afrikaans: “Seun van my smart”
- Arabic: “بينوني”
- Armenian: “Բենոնի”
- Asturian: “Benoni”
- Belarusian: “Бэноні”
- Bulgarian: “Бенони”
- Catalan: “Benoni”
- Cebuano: “Benoni”
- Chinese: “伯诺尼”
- Chinese: “伯諾尼”
- Danish: “Benoni”
- Dutch: “Benoni”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بينونى”
- Esperanto: “Benoni”
- Estonian: “Benoni”
- French: “Benoni”
- German: “Benoni”
- Greek: “Μπενόνι”
- Hebrew: “באנוני”
- Hindi: “बेनोनी, गौतेंग”
- Hindi: “बेनोनी”
- Irish: “Benoni”
- Italian: “Benoni”
- Japanese: “ベノーニ”
- Japanese: “ベノニ”
- Lithuanian: “Benoni”
- Lithuanian: “Benonis”
- Malagasy: “Benoni”
- Malayalam: “ബെനോനി”
- Marathi: “बेनोनी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Benoni”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Benoni”
- Pedi: “Benoni”
- Polish: “Benoni”
- Portuguese: “Benoni (cidade)”
- Portuguese: “Benoni”
- Romanian: “Benoni, Gauteng”
- Romanian: “Benoni”
- Russian: “Бенони”
- Silesian: “Benoni”
- Slovenian: “Benoni”
- Spanish: “Benoni”
- Swahili: “Benoni”
- Swedish: “Benoni, Gauteng”
- Swedish: “Benoni”
- Tagalog: “Benoni”
- Tswana: “Benoni”
- Ukrainian: “Беноні”
- Urdu: “بینونی، گاؤٹینگ”
- Uzbek: “Benoni”
- Venetian: “Benoni”
- Waray (Philippines): “Benoni, Gauteng”
- Waray (Philippines): “Benoni”
- Xhosa: “Benoni, Gauteng”
- Xhosa: “Benoni”
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