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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Pretoria and Centurion.
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.
Centurion
Centurion is a city of 237,000 people in the Tshwane district of South Africa 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.
Rietvlei Nature Reserve
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Rietvlei Nature Reserve, located in southern Pretoria, is about 4,000 hectares (40 km, of which the dam constitutes some 20ha. A network of roads criss-cross the entire area, which facilitates access to visitors and management.
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Irene
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Irene is a village of 2,700 people on the outskirts of Centurion in Tshwane, South Africa. It is south of Pretoria. Irene is known for having been a home to the South African statesman and military leader Jan Smuts, and as the site of a concentration camp where the British imprisoned Boer women and children during the Second Anglo-Boer War.
Tshwane
- Type: metropolitan municipality in South Africa with 2,500,000 residents
- Description: metropolitan municipality in Gauteng, South Africa
- Also known as: “City of Tshwane”, “City of Tshwane Metro”, “City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”, “City of Tshwane Municipality”, “Pretoria Metro”, “Pretoria Metropolitan Municipality”, “Pretoria Municipality”, “Tshwane Metro”, “Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”, and “Tshwane Municipality”
- Neighbors: Ekurhuleni
- Location: Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Tshwane” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Stad Tshwane Metropolitaanse Munisipaliteit”
- Afrikaans: “Tshwane”
- Arabic: “بلدية تشواني”
- Armenian: “Ցվանե”
- Azerbaijani: “Tsvane”
- Bulgarian: “Тсване”
- Catalan: “Tshwane”
- Cebuano: “City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”
- Cebuano: “City of Tshwane”
- Chinese: “Tshwane Chhī To͘-hōe Chū-tī-thé”
- Chinese: “茨瓦內市”
- Chinese: “茨瓦內市大都會自治市”
- Chinese: “茨瓦內市都會市鎮”
- Chinese: “茨瓦内市都会市镇”
- Croatian: “Tshwane”
- Danish: “City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”
- Dutch: “Tshwane”
- Dutch: “Tswane”
- Esperanto: “Granda Tshwane”
- Esperanto: “Tshwane”
- Estonian: “Tshwane linnaringkond”
- French: “Tshwane (métropole)”
- French: “Tshwane”
- Galician: “Tshwane”
- German: “City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”
- German: “Tshwane”
- Greek: “Μητροπολιτικός Δήμος Πόλης του Τσουάνε”
- Hebrew: “מטרופולין צוואנה”
- Hungarian: “City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”
- Italian: “municipalità di Tshwane”
- Italian: “municipalità metropolitana di Tshwane”
- Italian: “Municipalità metropolitana di Tshwane”
- Italian: “Municipio metropolitano di Tshwane”
- Japanese: “ツワネ”
- Japanese: “ツワネ市都市圏”
- Japanese: “ツワネ都市圏”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tshwane Chhī To͘-hōe Chū-tī-thé”
- Moksha: “Тсванэ”
- Moroccan Arabic: “لبلدية د تشواني”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tshwane”
- Novial: “Tshwane”
- Pedi: “City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”
- Polish: “Tshwane”
- Portuguese: “Tshwane”
- Portuguese: “Tsuane”
- Russian: “Тсване”
- Russian: “Тшване”
- Russian: “Цване”
- Russian: “Цхване”
- Russian: “Чване”
- Slovenian: “City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”
- Slovenian: “Metropolitanska občina Mesto Cvane”
- Spanish: “Ciudad de tshwane”
- Spanish: “Municipio Metropolitano de la Ciudad de Tshwane”
- Spanish: “Municipio Metropolitano de Tshwane”
- Spanish: “Tshwane”
- Spanish: “Tswane”
- Swahili: “Jiji la Tshwane Mita”
- Swahili: “Manispaa ya Jiji la Tshwane Metropolitan”
- Swedish: “Tshwane”
- Tsonga: “Masipalankulu wa Doroba ra Tshwane”
- Tswana: “Tshwane”
- Ukrainian: “Тсване”
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