Informal Settlement

Informal Settlement is a residential area in City of Johannesburg, Gauteng. Informal Settlement is situated nearby to Dance Café, as well as near PWC Cycle Park.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Liliesleaf Farm and Montecasino.

Liliesleaf Farm

Museum

Photo: Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Liliesleaf Farm, also spelt Lilliesleaf and also known simply as Liliesleaf, is a location in northern Johannesburg, South Africa, which is most noted for its use as a safe house for African National Congress activists during the apartheid years in the 1960s. Liliesleaf Farm is situated 3 km southeast of Informal Settlement.

Montecasino

Retail building

Photo: NJR ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Montecasino, popularly shortened to Monte, is a casino and leisure development in Fourways, Sandton, in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It was designed by American company Creative Kingdom Inc. and built by South African architect Joel Martins of the architectural firm Bentel Associates International at a cost of R1.6 billion. Montecasino is situated 1½ km northwest of Informal Settlement.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Magaliessig and Douglasdale.

Magaliessig

Suburb

Magaliessig is a suburb of Sandton, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality and it is part of Bryanston.

Douglasdale

Suburb

Douglasdale is a residential suburb in Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa. It is located between the suburbs of Fourways and Bryanston. Often confused as a suburb of the Fourways District. Douglasdale is situated 3½ km west of Informal Settlement.

Woodmead

Suburb

Woodmead is mostly a commercial suburb in the northern part of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa. Four highways meet here, the N1 Western Bypass, N1 Ben Schoeman Freeway, N3 Eastern Bypass, and the M1. Woodmead is situated 4 km east of Informal Settlement.

Informal Settlement

Type: Residential area
Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude

-26.03043° or 26° 1′ 50″ south

Longitude

28.02864° or 28° 1′ 43″ east

Open location code

5G5CX29H+RF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 1107952441

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=residential

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