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.
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Gauteng
- Province of South Africa with about 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”“PWV”
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Latitude of center
-26.0833° or 26° 5′ south
Longitude of center
28.25° or 28° 15′ east
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Gauteng” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gauteng”
- Afrikaans: “Gautengprovinsie”
- Amharic: “ጋውቴንግ”
- 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: “豪滕省”
- 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”
- Hausa: “Gauteng”
- 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”
- Javanese: “Gauteng”
- Kannada: “ಗೌಟೆಂಗ್”
- Kazakh: “Гаутенг”
- Kirghiz: “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”
- Oromo: “Gauteng”
- Ossetian: “Гаутенг”
- Panjabi: “ਗੌਟੇਂਗ”
- Pedi: “Gauteng”
- Persian: “خائوتنگ”
- Persian: “گائوتنگ”
- Polish: “Gauteng”
- Portuguese: “Gauteng”
- Portuguese: “Província de gauteng”
- Pushto: “گاوتنگ”
- 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: “கவுடேங்”
- Tamil: “கவுதெங்”
- Tamil: “கௌடேங்”
- Tatar: “Готенг”
- Telugu: “గౌటెంగ్”
- Thai: “กัวเตง”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเคาเต็ง”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Gauteng”
- Tsonga: “Gauteng”
- Tswana: “Gauteng”
- Turkish: “Gauteng”
- Ukrainian: “Гаутенг”
- Urdu: “خاؤتنگ”
- Urdu: “گاؤتنگ”
- Uzbek: “Gauteng”
- Venda: “Gauteng”
- Venetian: “Gauteng”
- Vietnamese: “Gauteng”
- Volapük: “Kautiän”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gauteng”
- Welsh: “Gauteng”
- Western Frisian: “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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