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.
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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”, “Ciudad de tshwane”, “Granda Tshwane”, “Jiji la Tshwane Mita”, “Metropolitanska občina Mesto Cvane”, “municipalità metropolitana di Tshwane”, “Municipio Metropolitano de la Ciudad de Tshwane”, “Municipio metropolitano di Tshwane”, “Pretoria Metro”, “Pretoria Metropolitan Municipality”, “Pretoria Municipality”, “Tshwane (métropole)”, “Tshwane Metro”, “Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”, “Tshwane Municipality”, “Tswane”, “Тшване”, “Цхване”, “Чване”, “ツワネ市都市圏”, “ツワネ都市圏”, and “茨瓦內市”
- Neighbors: Ekurhuleni
- Location: Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
-25.6599° or 25° 39′ 36″ south
Longitude of center
28.4434° or 28° 26′ 36″ east
Population
2,500,000
Elevation
1,319 metres (4,327 feet)
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Tshwane” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Stad Tshwane Metropolitaanse Munisipaliteit”
- Arabic: “بلدية تشواني”
- Armenian: “Ցվանե”
- Azerbaijani: “Tsvane”
- Bulgarian: “Тсване”
- Catalan: “Tshwane”
- Cebuano: “City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”
- 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”
- Czech: “Tshwane”
- Danish: “City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”
- Danish: “Tshwane storbykommune”
- Dutch: “Tshwane”
- Esperanto: “Tshwane”
- Estonian: “Tshwane linnaringkond”
- 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”
- Japanese: “ツワネ”
- Kikuyu: “Mũthurubarĩ wa Cũanĩ (Tswane)”
- Kikuyu: “Mũthurubarĩ wa Cũanĩ”
- 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: “Цване”
- Slovenian: “City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”
- Spanish: “Municipio Metropolitano de Tshwane”
- Spanish: “Tshwane”
- Swahili: “Manispaa ya Jiji la Tshwane Metropolitan”
- Swedish: “Tshwane”
- Tsonga: “Masipalankulu wa Doroba ra Tshwane”
- Tswana: “Tshwane”
- Tumbuka: “City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality”
- Ukrainian: “Тсване”
- Urdu: “سٹی آف شوانی میٹروپولیٹن بلدیہ”
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