Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the provinces in the northeast of South Africa. The word "Gauteng" is a Sesotho phrase meaning "Place of gold", referencing to the thriving gold industry following the 1886 discovery of gold in Johannesburg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Johannesburg and Pretoria.
Johannesburg
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Johannesburg is a large metropolis and South Africa's largest city. Once regarded as South Africa's crime capital in the turbulent nineties, the city has shaken off that reputation led by its youthful exuberant population and a growing black middle class, not to mention the omnipresent soundtrack of Amapiano and house music.
Pretoria
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Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, is in Gauteng. Its wide avenues are lined with purple-flowered jacaranda trees and stately architecture.
Soweto
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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.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Tshwane and West Rand.
Tshwane
The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, also known as the City of Tshwane, is the metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng in South Africa.
West Rand
The West Rand is the urban western part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation. This area became settled by Europeans after a gold-bearing reef discovered in 1886 and sparked the gold rush that gave rise to the establishment of Johannesburg.
Ekurhuleni
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.
Sedibeng
Sedibeng comprises the southern part of Gauteng and straddles the banks of the Vaal River at the border between Gauteng and the Free State.
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Gauteng
- Type: province of South Africa with 15,100,000 residents
- Description: province in South Africa
- Also known as: “Gauteng Province”, “Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging”, “Province of Gauteng”, “Province of Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging”, and “PWV”
- Neighbors: Free State, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, and North West Province
- Location: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gauteng” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gauteng”
- Afrikaans: “Gautengprovinsie”
- Arabic: “خاوتينغ”
- Armenian: “Գաուտենգ”
- Asturian: “Gauteng”
- Azerbaijani: “Qautenq vilayəti”
- Basque: “Gauteng”
- Belarusian: “Гаўтэнг”
- Bengali: “গুটেং”
- Breton: “Gauteng”
- Bulgarian: “Гаутенг”
- Bulgarian: “Хаутенг”
- Catalan: “Gauteng”
- Catalan: “Província de Gauteng”
- Cebuano: “Gauteng”
- Chinese: “Gauteng Séng”
- Chinese: “豪滕省”
- Chinese: “豪登”
- Chinese: “豪登省”
- Croatian: “Gauteng”
- Czech: “Gauteng”
- Danish: “Gauteng”
- Dutch: “Gauteng”
- Esperanto: “Gauteng”
- Esperanto: “Gautengo”
- Esperanto: “Ĥaŭtengo”
- Estonian: “Gauteng”
- Estonian: “Gautengi provints”
- Faroese: “Gauteng”
- Finnish: “Gauteng”
- French: “Gauteng”
- French: “Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging”
- Galician: “Gauteng”
- Georgian: “გაუტენგი”
- German: “Gauteng”
- German: “Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging”
- Greek: “Γκαουτένγκ”
- Gujarati: “ગ્વાટેંગ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Gauteng-sén”
- Hebrew: “PWV”
- Hebrew: “גאוטנג”
- Hebrew: “חאוטנג”
- Hebrew: “פרובינציית גאוטנג”
- Hindi: “ख़ाउतेन्ग प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “गौटेंग”
- Hungarian: “Gauteng”
- Indonesian: “Gauteng”
- Italian: “Gauteng”
- Italian: “Provincia del Gauteng”
- Italian: “Provincia di Gauteng”
- Japanese: “ハウテン州”
- Kannada: “ಗೌಟೆಂಗ್”
- Kazakh: “Гаутенг”
- Korean: “가우텡 주”
- Korean: “하우텡주”
- Latin: “Gauteng”
- Latvian: “Hautena”
- Lithuanian: “Gautengas”
- Macedonian: “Гаутенг”
- Malagasy: “Gauteng”
- Malay: “Gauteng”
- Malayalam: “ഗൗറ്റെങ്”
- Marathi: “ग्वाटेंग”
- Mazanderani: “گائوتنگ اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gauteng Séng”
- Moksha: “Гаутэнг”
- Northern Frisian: “Gauteng (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Gauteng”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gauteng”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gauteng”
- Norwegian: “Gauteng”
- Novial: “Gauteng”
- Nyanja: “Gauteng”
- Ossetian: “Гаутенг”
- Pedi: “Gauteng”
- Persian: “خائوتنگ”
- Persian: “گائوتنگ”
- Polish: “Gauteng”
- Portuguese: “Gauteng”
- Portuguese: “Província de gauteng”
- Romanian: “Gauteng”
- Romanian: “Provincia Gauteng”
- Russian: “Гаутенг”
- Scots: “Gauteng Province”
- Scots: “Gauteng”
- Serbian: “Hauteng”
- Serbian: “Гаутенг”
- Serbian: “Покрајина Гаутенг”
- Serbian: “Покрајина Хаутенг”
- Serbian: “Хаутенг”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gauteng”
- Shona: “Gauteng”
- Sinhala: “ගවුටෙන්ග් පළාත, දකුණු අප්රිකාව”
- Sinhala: “ගවුටෙන්ග්”
- Slovak: “Gauteng”
- Slovenian: “Gauteng”
- Slovenian: “Provinca Gauteng”
- Somali: “Gauteng Gobol”
- Somali: “Gauteng Province”
- South Ndebele: “iGauteng”
- Southern Sotho: “Gauteng”
- Southern Sotho: “Kgauteng”
- Spanish: “Gauteng”
- Spanish: “Pretoria Witwatersrand Vereeniging”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Gauteng”
- Swahili: “Gauteng”
- Swati: “Gauteng”
- Swedish: “Gauteng”
- Swedish: “Gautengprovinsen”
- Tajik: “Гаутенг”
- Tamil: “கடெங்”
- Tamil: “கவுடேங்”
- Tamil: “கவுதெங்”
- Tamil: “கௌடேங்”
- Telugu: “గౌటెంగ్”
- Thai: “กัวเตง”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเคาเต็ง”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Gauteng”
- Tsonga: “Gauteng”
- Tswana: “Gauteng”
- Turkish: “Gauteng”
- Ukrainian: “Гаутенг”
- Urdu: “خاؤتنگ”
- Urdu: “گاؤتنگ”
- Venda: “Gauteng”
- Venetian: “Gauteng”
- Vietnamese: “Gauteng”
- Volapük: “Kautiän”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gauteng”
- Welsh: “Gauteng”
- Western Panjabi: “گاؤتنگ”
- Wu Chinese: “豪登省”
- Xhosa: “IPhondo yaRhawuti”
- Yoruba: “Gauteng”
- Yue Chinese: “豪登”
- Zulu: “EGoli”
- Zulu: “Gauteng”
- Zulu: “IGauteng”
- Zulu: “Izifundazwe sase IGauteng”
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