Orlando Stadium
Orlando Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Soweto, a township in Johannesburg, in Gauteng province in South Africa. It is the home venue for Orlando Pirates Football Club, a professional soccer team that plays in the Premier Soccer League and owned by the City of Johannesburg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: 2010 World Cup - Shine 2010, CC BY 2.0.
- Type: Stadium
- Description: stadium in Soweto, South Africa (1st incarnation)
- Also known as: “eSgodini” and “eSika Maminzela iSgodi”
- Address: Martha Louw Street & Mooki Street, Orlando East, Johannesburg, 1804
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Orlando East Library and Mandela House.
Orlando East Library
Library
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Orlando East Public Library is the oldest library in Soweto in South Africa. Orlando East Library is situated 1 km south of Orlando Stadium.
Mandela House
Museum
Photo: Moongateclimber, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Nelson Mandela National Museum, commonly referred to as Mandela House, is the house on Vilakazi Street, Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa, where Nelson Mandela lived from 1946 to 1962. Mandela House is situated 1½ km southwest of Orlando Stadium.
Hector Pieterson Museum
Museum
Photo: Babak Fakhamzadeh, CC BY 2.0.
The Hector Pieterson Museum is a museum located in Orlando West, Soweto, South Africa. Located two blocks away from where student protester Hector Pieterson was shot and killed on 16 June 1976, the museum is named in his honour and covers the events of the anti-Apartheid Soweto Uprising and Massacre, where more than 170 protesting school children were killed. Hector Pieterson Museum is situated 1½ km west of Orlando Stadium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Soweto and Dobsonville.
Soweto
Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Soweto is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Soweto is an increasingly popular destination for travellers from around the world, and is home of the Nelson Mandela National Museum.
Dobsonville
Suburb
Dobsonville is a township in greater Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies to the west of Meadowlands, a part of Diepmeadow, and is adjacent to Mofolo North and Zondi, which are suburbs of Soweto on its southern border. Dobsonville is situated 6 km west of Orlando Stadium.
Claremont
Suburb
Claremont is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, around 9 km west-northwest of City Hall. Under the old municipal borders, it was one of the westernmost suburbs of the city and bordered Roodepoort. Claremont is situated 7 km northeast of Orlando Stadium.
Orlando Stadium
Latitude
-26.23172° or 26° 13′ 54″ southLongitude
27.92257° or 27° 55′ 21″ eastOpen location code
5G59QW9F+82OpenStreetMap ID
way 787455695OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=stadiumWikidata ID
Q1681126
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Venda—“Orlando Stadium” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Orlandostadion”
- Arabic: “ملعب أورلاندو”
- Dutch: “Orlandostadion”
- French: “Orlando Stadium”
- German: “Orlando Stadion”
- German: “Orlando Stadium”
- Greek: “Στάδιο Ορλάντο”
- Italian: “Orlando Stadium”
- Japanese: “オーランド・スタジアム”
- Polish: “Orlando Stadium”
- Russian: “Орландо (стадион)”
- Russian: “Орландо”
- Spanish: “Estadio Orlando”
- Swahili: “Uwanja wa michezo wa Orlando”
- Venda: “TSHITEDIAMU TSHA ORLANDO PIRATES”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Orlando East Assembly of God and Orlando Stadium Bus Station (T1, T2, T3, C1, C6).
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Orlando Stadium”. Photo: 2010 World Cup - Shine 2010, CC BY 2.0.