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Pretoria

Pretoria, the administrative capital of , is in . Its wide avenues are lined with purple-flowered jacaranda trees and stately architecture.
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  • Type: City with 742,000 residents
  • Description: administrative capital of South Africa located in the Gauteng province
  • Also known as: “Pretoria, Gauteng”, “Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa”, “Pretoria, S Africa”, “Pretoria, S. Africa”, “Pretoria, South Africa”, and “Pta”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Ditsong National Museum of Natural History and Pretoria Zoo.

Museum
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The , formerly the Transvaal Museum, is a natural history museum situated in Pretoria, . It is located on Paul Kruger Street, between Visagie and Minnaar Streets, opposite the .

Zoo
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The National Zoological Garden of South Africa is an 80-hectare zoo located in Pretoria, . It is the national zoo of South Africa, and was founded by J. W. B. Gunning in 1899. is one of the eight largest zoos in the world.

Museum
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is the historical Pretoria residence of the Boer leader and President of the South African Republic, Paul Kruger. It was built in 1884 by architect Tom Claridge and builder Charles Clark.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Capital Park and Sunnyside.

Suburb
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is one of Pretoria's oldest and first suburbs and lies approximately 4 km north of the historic , behind the .

Suburb
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is one of the oldest suburbs of the city of Pretoria, . The well-established area is situated east of Nelson Mandela drive, adjacent to Pretoria Central.

Suburb
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is an established suburb to the southeast of Pretoria, .

Pretoria

Latitude
-25.7459° or 25° 44′ 45″ south
Longitude
28.1879° or 28° 11′ 17″ east
Population
742,000
Elevation
1,332 metres (4,370 feet)
IATA airport code
PRY
United Nations Location Code
ZA PRY
Open location code
5G6C753Q+J5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 25503669
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
964137
Wiki­data ID
Q3926
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Pretoria” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Преториа”
  • Afrikaans: “Pretoria”
  • Albanian: “Pretoria”
  • Amharic: “ፕሪቶሪያ”
  • Arabic: “بريتوريا”
  • Aragonese: “Pretoria”
  • Armenian: “Պրետորիա”
  • Arpitan: “Pretoria”
  • Asturian: “Pretoria”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pretoriya”
  • Balinese: “Pretoria”
  • Bambara: “Pretoria jamana na”
  • Bashkir: “Претория”
  • Basque: “Pretoria”
  • Bavarian: “Pretoria”
  • Bavarian: “Stod Pretoria”
  • Belarusian: “Прэторыя”
  • Bengali: “প্রিটোরিয়া”
  • Bosnian: “Pretoria”
  • Breton: “Pretoria”
  • Bulgarian: “Претория”
  • Catalan: “Pretòria”
  • Cebuano: “Pretoria”
  • Central Kurdish: “پرێتۆریا”
  • Chechen: “Претори”
  • Chinese: “Pretoria”
  • Chinese: “斐京”
  • Chinese: “普利托利亞”
  • Chinese: “普利托里亞”
  • Chinese: “普勒多利亞”
  • Chinese: “普勒托利亞”
  • Chinese: “普勒陀尼亞”
  • Chinese: “普里托利亞”
  • Chinese: “比勒陀利亚”
  • Chinese: “比勒陀利亞”
  • Chinese: “比勒陀里亞”
  • Chinese: “茨瓦内”
  • Chinese: “茨瓦尼”
  • Chinese: “茨瓦納”
  • Cornish: “Pretoria”
  • Croatian: “Pretoria”
  • Czech: “Pretoria”
  • Czech: “Pretorie”
  • Danish: “Pretoria”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Pretoria”
  • Dutch: “Pretoria”
  • Eastern Mari: “Преторий”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بريتوريا”
  • Esperanto: “Pretorio”
  • Estonian: “Pretoria”
  • Faroese: “Pretoria”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Pretoria”
  • Finnish: “Pretoria”
  • French: “Pretoria”
  • French: “Prétoria”
  • Ga: “Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa”
  • Ga: “Pretoria, Gauteng”
  • Ga: “Pretoria, S Africa”
  • Ga: “Pretoria, S. Africa”
  • Ga: “Pretoria, South Africa”
  • Ga: “Pretoria”
  • Galician: “Pretoria”
  • Georgian: “პრეტორია”
  • German: “Pretoria”
  • Greek: “Πρετόρια/Πόλη του Ακρωτηρίου”
  • Greek: “Πρετόρια”
  • Guarani: “Pretoria”
  • Gujarati: “પ્રિટોરિયા”
  • Haitian: “Pretoria”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pretoria”
  • Hausa: “Pretoria”
  • Hebrew: “פרטוריה”
  • Hindi: “प्रिटोरिया”
  • Hindi: “प्रॆटोर्य”
  • Hungarian: “Pretoria”
  • Icelandic: “Pretoría”
  • Ido: “Pretoria”
  • Inari Sami: “Pretoria”
  • Indonesian: “Pretoria”
  • Interlingua: “Pretoria”
  • Interlingue: “Pretoria”
  • Irish: “Pretoria”
  • Italian: “Pretoria”
  • Japanese: “プレトリア”
  • Javanese: “Pretoria”
  • Kabiyè: “Pretooriyaa”
  • Kabiyè: “Pretoria”
  • Kabyle: “Pretoria”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ರಿಟೋರಿಯಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಪ್ರೆಟೋರ್ಯ”
  • Kazakh: “Претория”
  • Kirghiz: “Претория”
  • Kongo: “Pretoria”
  • Korean: “프리토리아 수도”
  • Korean: “프리토리아”
  • Kotava: “Pretoria”
  • Kurdish: “Pretoria”
  • Latin: “Praetoria”
  • Latvian: “Pretorija”
  • Ligurian: “Pretoria”
  • Lingala: “Pretoria”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Pretoria”
  • Lithuanian: “Pretorija”
  • Livvi: “Pretourii”
  • Lombard: “Pretoria”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pretoria”
  • Macedonian: “Преторија”
  • Malagasy: “Pretoria”
  • Malay: “Pretoria”
  • Malayalam: “പ്രിട്ടോറിയ”
  • Maltese: “Pretoria”
  • Maltese: “Pretorja”
  • Manx: “Pretoria”
  • Maori: “Piritōria”
  • Marathi: “प्रिटोरिया”
  • Mazanderani: “پرتوریا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Pretoria”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pretoria”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Tshwane”
  • Minangkabau: “Pretoria”
  • Mingrelian: “პრეტორია”
  • Moksha: “Претория”
  • Mongolian: “Преториа”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “پريطوريا”
  • Navajo: “Tsindiitłʼííshí”
  • Nepali: “प्रिटोरीया”
  • Northern Frisian: “Pretoria”
  • Northern Sami: “Pretoria”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pretoria”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pretoria”
  • Norwegian: “Pretoria”
  • Novial: “Pretoria”
  • Nyanja: “Pretoria”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pretòria”
  • Ossetian: “Претори”
  • Panjabi: “ਪ੍ਰਿਟੋਰੀਆ”
  • Papiamento: “Pretoria”
  • Pedi: “Pitori”
  • Pedi: “Pretoria”
  • Pedi: “Tshwane”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Pretoria”
  • Persian: “پرتوریا”
  • Piemontese: “Pretoria”
  • Polish: “Pretoria”
  • Portuguese: “Pretória, África do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Pretória, Gauteng, África do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Pretória, Gauteng”
  • Portuguese: “Pretória”
  • Pushto: “پرتوریا”
  • Quechua: “Piriturya”
  • Quechua: “Priturya”
  • Romanian: “Pretoria”
  • Romansh: “Pretoria”
  • Russian: “Претория”
  • Sardinian: “Pretòria”
  • Scots: “ePitoli”
  • Scots: “Pretoria”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Pretoria”
  • Serbian: “Преторија”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pretoria”
  • Shona: “Pretoria”
  • Sicilian: “Pretoria”
  • Silesian: “Pretoria”
  • Sindhi: “پريٽوريا”
  • Sinhala: “ප්‍රිටෝරියා”
  • Skolt Sami: “Pretoria”
  • Slovak: “Pretória”
  • Slovenian: “Pretoria”
  • Slovenian: “Pretorija”
  • Somali: “Pretoria”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پرتوریا”
  • Spanish: “Pretoria”
  • Swahili: “Pretoria”
  • Swati: “IPitoli”
  • Swati: “Pitoli”
  • Swedish: “Pretoria”
  • Swedish: “Tshwane”
  • Tagalog: “Pretoria”
  • Tajik: “Претория”
  • Talysh: “Pretorija”
  • Talysh: “Pretoriya”
  • Tamil: “பிரிட்டோரியா”
  • Tatar: “Pretoriä”
  • Telugu: “ప్రిటోరియా”
  • Thai: “พริทอเรีย”
  • Tibetan: “ཕི་རི་ཐོ་རི་ཡ།”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Pretoria”
  • Tsonga: “Pitori”
  • Tsonga: “Pretoria”
  • Turkish: “Pretoria”
  • Udmurt: “Претория”
  • Uighur: “Prétoriye”
  • Ukrainian: “Преторія”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Pretoria”
  • Urdu: “پریٹوریا”
  • Uzbek: “Pretoriya”
  • Venda: “ePitoli”
  • Venda: “Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa”
  • Venda: “Pretoria, Gauteng”
  • Venda: “Pretoria, S. Africa”
  • Venda: “Pretoria”
  • Venetian: “Pretoria”
  • Veps: “Pretorii”
  • Vietnamese: “Pretoria”
  • Volapük: “Pretoria”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pretoria”
  • Welsh: “Pretoria”
  • Western Frisian: “Pretoria”
  • Western Panjabi: “پریٹوریا”
  • Wu Chinese: “比勒陀利亚”
  • Xhosa: “E-Pitoli”
  • Yiddish: “פרעטאריע”
  • Yoruba: “Pretoria”
  • Yue Chinese: “普利托里亞”
  • Zeeuws: “Pretoria”
  • Zulu: “IPitoli”
  • “ePitoli”
  • “ma Petolija”
  • “ma tomo Petolija”
  • “ma tomo Wetolija”
  • “ma Wetolija”
  • “Pretoria”

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