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Centurion

Centurion is a city of 237,000 people in the district of between Pretoria to the north, and Midrand and Johannesburg to the south. It is home to the Waterkloof Air Force Base, and the Swartkop Air Force Base.
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  • Type: Town with 237,000 residents
  • Description: town in Gauteng, South Africa
  • Also known as: “Centurion, South Africa” and “Verwoerdburg”
  • Historically known as: “Lyttelton”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Centurion.

Railway station
Photo: Setzor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a metro station on the Gautrain rapid transit system in , . The station opened on 2 August 2011 as part of the second phase of the Gautrain project.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clubview and Eldoraigne.

Suburb
is a small residential suburb in Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa.

Suburb
is a residential suburb east of Centurion, Gauteng, South Africa.

Suburb
is a residential suburb in Centurion, , South Africa, just east of the CBD. is situated 3½ km southeast of Centurion.

Centurion

Latitude
-25.8364° or 25° 50′ 11″ south
Longitude
28.1803° or 28° 10′ 49″ east
Population
237,000
Elevation
1,432 metres (4,698 feet)
United Nations Location Code
ZA ZAY
Open location code
5G6C557J+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 262719636
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1105777
Wiki­data ID
Q1054450
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Centurion” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Centurion, Gauteng”
  • Afrikaans: “Centurion”
  • Afrikaans: “Verwoerdburg”
  • Asturian: “Centurion”
  • Cebuano: “Centurion”
  • Chinese: “杉球恩”
  • Chinese: “森丘里恩”
  • Chinese: “森图里翁”
  • Dutch: “Centurion”
  • Dutch: “Verwoerdburg”
  • Esperanto: “Centurion (Sud-Afriko)”
  • Esperanto: “Centurion”
  • Estonian: “Centurion”
  • French: “Centurion”
  • French: “Verwoerdburg”
  • German: “Centurion”
  • Hindi: “सेंचुरियन, गौतेंग”
  • Hindi: “सेंचुरियन”
  • Hungarian: “Centurion (Dél-Afrika)”
  • Hungarian: “Centurion”
  • Irish: “Centurion”
  • Italian: “Centurion”
  • Japanese: “センチュリオン (南アフリカ)”
  • Japanese: “センチュリオン”
  • Malayalam: “സെഞ്ചൂറിയൻ”
  • Marathi: “सेंचुरियन, गॉटेंग”
  • Marathi: “सेंचुरियन, दक्षिण आफ्रिका”
  • Marathi: “सेंच्युरियन”
  • Marathi: “सेंच्युरीयन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Centurion”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੰਚਰੀਆਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੰਟਰੀਆਨ”
  • Pedi: “Centurion, Gauteng”
  • Pedi: “Centurion”
  • Polish: “Centurion (miasto)”
  • Polish: “Centurion”
  • Polish: “Verwoerdburg”
  • Romanian: “Centurion, Gauteng”
  • Romanian: “Centurion”
  • Russian: “Центурион”
  • Spanish: “Centurion (Sudáfrica)”
  • Spanish: “Centurion”
  • Swahili: “Centurion (Afrika Kusini)”
  • Swahili: “Centurion”
  • Tswana: “Centurion, Gauteng”
  • Tswana: “Centurion”
  • Urdu: “سینچورین، گاؤٹینگ”
  • Venetian: “Centurion”
  • Western Panjabi: “سنٹریان”
  • Western Panjabi: “سنچریان”
  • Western Panjabi: “سینچورین، گاؤٹینگ”
  • Xhosa: “Centurion, Gauteng”
  • Xhosa: “Centurion”
  • Zulu: “Centurion, Gauteng”
  • Zulu: “Centurion”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Centurion”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.