Orlando West
Orlando West is a suburb in City of Johannesburg, Gauteng and has an elevation of 1,625 metres. Orlando West is situated nearby to the suburb Meadowlands East Zone 3, as well as near Orlando East.Places of Interest
Highlights include Orlando Amstel Arena and Hector Pieterson Museum.
Orlando Amstel Arena
Stadium
Photo: 2010 World Cup - Shine 2010, CC BY 2.0.
Orlando Stadium, officially known as Orlando Amstel Arena for sponsorship reasons, is a multi-purpose stadium in Soweto, a township in Johannesburg, in Gauteng province in South Africa.
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.
Meadowlands Secondary School
School
Meadowlands Secondary School is a government secondary school in Meadowlands a section of Soweto.
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 5 km west of Orlando West.
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 West.
Orlando West
- Type: Suburb
- Category: locality
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.22056° or 26° 13′ 14″ southLongitude
27.91472° or 27° 54′ 53″ eastElevation
1,625 metres (5,331 feet)Open location code
5G59QWH7+QVOpenStreetMap ID
node 262714379OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
11204066
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