Westpark Cemetery

Westpark Cemetery is a large cemetery in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the resting place of some of the country's well-known citizens. It is a non-denomination designated burial ground, and thus has Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Chinese burial areas.

Photo: Hentie Joubert, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Johannesburg Botanical Garden and Emmarentia Dam.

Johannesburg Botanical Garden

Park

Photo: NJR ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Johannesburg Botanical Garden is located in the suburb of Emmarentia in Johannesburg, South Africa. The gardens grew out of a large rose garden that was established in 1964 and subsequently expanded from 1969 to cover an area of around 125 hectares. Johannesburg Botanical Garden is situated 1¼ km northeast of Westpark Cemetery.

Emmarentia Dam

Reservoir

Photo: Setzor, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Emmarentia Dam is a dam in Emmarentia, Johannesburg, South Africa. There are several dams that make up Emmarentia Dam, despite its allusion to the singular, with two small dams found upstream in the Johannesburg Botanical Gardens.

Herdershof

Building

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Herdershof is a building, which is situated 1 km southwest of Westpark Cemetery.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Westdene and Franklin Roosevelt Park.

Westdene

Suburb

Westdene is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Westdene lies between the historic suburb of Sophiatown and Melville with the Melville Koppies nature reserve to the north of the suburb.

Franklin Roosevelt Park

Suburb

Franklin Roosevelt Park is a north-western suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, around 8 km northwest of City Hall, north of Montgomery Park and southwest of Linden.

Sophiatown

Suburb

Photo: ShiningWolf, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Sophiatown, also known as Sof'town or Kofifi, is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Sophiatown was a poor multi-racial area and a black cultural hub that was destroyed under apartheid.

Westpark Cemetery

Type: Cemetery
Description: cemetery in Africa
Category: burial
Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude

-26.16374° or 26° 9′ 50″ south

Longitude

27.98982° or 27° 59′ 23″ east

Open location code

5G59RXPQ+GW

OpenStreetMap ID

way 18906923

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=cemetery

Wikidata ID

Q7989544

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Japanese—“Westpark Cemetery” goes by many names.

Afrikaans: “Wespark-begraafplaas”
Chinese: “西園公墓”
French: “cimetière de Westpark”
French: “Cimetière de Westpark”
German: “West Park Cemetery”
Japanese: “ウェストパーク墓地”

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