Gauteng
Gauteng is one of the provinces in the northeast of South Africa. The word "Gauteng" is a Sesotho phrase meaning "Place of gold", referencing to the thriving gold industry following the 1886 discovery of gold in Johannesburg.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Johannesburg
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Johannesburg is a large metropolis and South Africa's largest city.
Pretoria
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Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa and part of City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, is in Gauteng.
Soweto
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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.
Destinations
West Rand
The West Rand is the urban western part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation.Sedibeng
Sedibeng comprises the southern part of Gauteng and straddles the banks of the Vaal River at the border between Gauteng and the Free State.Gauteng
- Type: province of South Africa with 16,100,000 residents
- Description: province in South Africa
- Neighbors: Free State, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and North West Province
- Location: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
-26.0833° or 26° 5' southLongitude of centre
28.25° or 28° 15' eastPopulation
16,100,000Elevation
1,652 metres (5,420 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA GAUGeoNames ID
1085594Wikidata ID
Q133083Gauteng Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Gauteng
- Afrikaans: Gautengprovinsie
- Arabic: Gauteng
- Arabic: خاوتينغ
- Armenian: Գաուտենգ
- Asturian: Gauteng
- Azerbaijani: Qautenq vilayəti
- Basque: Gauteng
- Belarusian: Гаўтэнг
- Bengali: গুটেং
- Breton: Gauteng
- Bulgarian: Гаутенг
- Bulgarian: Хаутенг
- Catalan: Gauteng
- Catalan: Província de Gauteng
- Cebuano: Gauteng
- Chinese: Gauteng Séng
- Chinese: 豪滕省
- Chinese: 豪登
- Chinese: 豪登省
- Croatian: Gauteng
- Czech: Gauteng
- Danish: Gauteng
- Dutch: Gauteng
- English: Gauteng Province
- English: PWV
- English: Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging
- English: Province of Gauteng
- Esperanto: Gauteng
- Esperanto: Gautengo
- Esperanto: Ĥaŭtengo
- Estonian: Gauteng
- Estonian: Gautengi provints
- Faroese: Gauteng
- Finnish: Gauteng
- French: Gauteng
- French: Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging
- Galician: Gauteng
- Georgian: გაუტენგი
- German: Gauteng
- German: Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging
- Greek: Γκαουτένγκ
- Gujarati: ગ્વાટેંગ
- Hakka Chinese: Gauteng-sén
- Hausa: Gauteng-sén
- Hebrew: PWV
- Hebrew: גאוטנג
- Hebrew: חאוטנג
- Hebrew: פרובינציית גאוטנג
- Hindi: ख़ाउतेन्ग प्रान्त
- Hindi: गौटेंग
- Hungarian: Gauteng
- Indonesian: Gauteng
- Italian: Gauteng
- Italian: Provincia del Gauteng
- Italian: Provincia di Gauteng
- Japanese: ハウテン州
- Kannada: ಗೌಟೆಂಗ್
- Kazakh: Гаутенг
- Korean: 가우텡 주
- Korean: 하우텡 주
- Korean: 하우텡주
- Latin: Chrysotopia
- Latin: Gauteng
- Latvian: Hautena
- Lithuanian: Gautengas
- Macedonian: Гаутенг
- Malagasy: Gauteng
- Malay: Gauteng
- Malayalam: ഗൗറ്റെങ്
- Marathi: ग्वाटेंग
- Min Nan Chinese: Gauteng Séng
- Moksha: Гаутэнг
- Northern Frisian: Gauteng (Prowins)
- Northern Frisian: Gauteng
- Norwegian: Gauteng
- Norwegian Bokmål: Gauteng
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Gauteng
- Novial: Gauteng
- Nyanja: Gauteng
- Ossetian: Гаутенг
- Pedi: Gauteng
- Persian: خائوتنگ
- Persian: خاوتنگ
- Persian: گائوتنگ
- Polish: Gauteng
- Portuguese: Gauteng
- Portuguese: Província de gauteng
- Romanian: Gauteng
- Romanian: Provincia Gauteng
- Russian: Гаутенг
- Scots: Gauteng
- Scots: Gauteng Province
- Serbian: Hauteng
- Serbian: Гаутенг
- Serbian: Покрајина Гаутенг
- Serbian: Покрајина Хаутенг
- Serbian: Хаутенг
- Serbo-Croatian: Gauteng
- Shona: Gauteng
- Sinhala: ගවුටෙන්ග්
- Slovak: Gauteng
- Somali: Gauteng Gobol
- Somali: Gauteng Province
- South Ndebele: iGauteng
- Southern Sotho: Gauteng
- Southern Sotho: Kgauteng
- Spanish: Gauteng
- Spanish: Pretoria Witwatersrand Vereeniging
- Spanish: Provincia de Gauteng
- Swahili: Gauteng
- Swati: Gauteng
- Swedish: Gauteng
- Swedish: Gautengprovinsen
- Tajik: Гаутенг
- Tamil: கடெங்
- Tamil: கவுடேங்
- Tamil: கவுதெங்
- Tamil: கௌடேங்
- Telugu: గౌటెంగ్
- Thai: กัวเตง
- Thai: จังหวัดเคาเต็ง
- Tornedalen Finnish: Gauteng
- Tsonga: Gauteng
- Tswana: Gauteng
- Turkish: Gauteng
- Ukrainian: Гаутенг
- Ukrainian: Ґаутенг
- Urdu: خاؤتنگ
- Urdu: گاؤتنگ
- Venda: Gauteng
- Venetian: Gauteng
- Vietnamese: Gauteng
- Volapük: Kautiän
- Waray (Philippines): Gauteng
- Welsh: Gauteng
- Western Panjabi: گاؤتنگ
- Wu Chinese: 豪登省
- Xhosa: IPhondo yaRhawuti
- Yoruba: Gauteng
- Yue Chinese: 豪登
- Zulu: EGoli
- Zulu: Gauteng
- Zulu: IGauteng
- Zulu: Izifundazwe sase IGauteng
- Province of Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vereeniging
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Gauteng. Photo: Profberger, CC BY-SA 3.0.