Soweto
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. The Soweto Marimba Youth League during a public performance…Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Meadowlands Secondary School
School
Meadowlands Secondary School is a government secondary school in Meadowlands a section of Soweto.
Localities in the Area
Soweto
- Type: City with 1,270,000 residents
- Description: township of South Africa
- Categories: South African township and locality
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-26.22278° or 26° 13' 22" southLongitude
27.89° or 27° 53' 24" eastPopulation
1,270,000Elevation
1,632 metres (5,354 feet)United Nations Location Code
ZA ZEVOpen Location Code
5G59QVGQ+VXOpenStreetMap ID
node 27565050OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
953781Wikidata ID
Q217426Soweto Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Soweto
- Arabic: Soweto
- Arabic: سويتو
- Armenian: Սոուետո
- Asturian: Soweto
- Azerbaijani: Soveto
- Basque: Soweto
- Bengali: সোয়েতো
- Bulgarian: Совето
- Catalan: Soweto
- Chinese: 索韋托
- Chinese: 索韦托
- Croatian: Soweto
- Czech: Soweto
- Danish: Soweto
- Dutch: Soweto
- English: Johannesburg/Soweto
- English: Soweto, Gauteng
- English: Soweto, Johannesburg
- English: Soweto, South Africa
- Esperanto: Soweto
- Finnish: Soweto
- French: Doornkop
- French: Soweto
- Galician: Soweto
- Georgian: სოვეტო
- German: South Western Township
- German: South Western Townships
- German: Soweto
- Greek: Σοβέτο
- Gujarati: સોવેટો
- Hebrew: סווטו
- Hindi: सॉवेटो
- Hungarian: Soweto
- Ido: Soweto
- Indonesian: Soweto
- Irish: Soweto
- Italian: Soweto
- Japanese: ソウェト
- Japanese: ソエト
- Kannada: ಸೌಏತೋ
- Korean: 소웨토
- Latin: Soweto
- Latvian: Soueto
- Lithuanian: Sovetas
- Lithuanian: Soweto
- Luxembourgish: Soweto
- Malagasy: Soweto
- Malay: Soweto
- Marathi: सोव्हिटो
- Norwegian: Soweto
- Norwegian Bokmål: Soweto
- Persian: سووتو
- Polish: Soweto
- Portuguese: Soweto
- Romanian: Soweto
- Russian: Совето
- Russian: Соуэто
- Serbian: Совето
- Shona: Soweto
- Silesian: Soweto
- Sinhala: සොවෙටෝ
- Slovak: Soweto
- Slovenian: Soweto
- South Azerbaijani: سووتو
- Spanish: South West Township
- Spanish: South Western Township
- Spanish: Soweto
- Swahili: Soweto
- Swati: Soweto
- Swedish: Soweto
- Tamil: சோயிட்டோ
- Telugu: సోవెటో
- Thai: โซเวโต
- Turkish: Soweto
- Ukrainian: Совето
- Urdu: سوویتو
- Venda: Soweto
- Vietnamese: Soweto
- Waray (Philippines): Soweto
- Xhosa: Soweto
- Zulu: Soweto
- Mpanzaville
- სოუეტო
Other Places Named Soweto
In the Area
Soweto is situated close to the suburbs Meadowlands East and Meadowlands West.
- Meadowlands West Zone 10Suburb
- Meadowlands East Zone 3Suburb
- Meadowlands EastSuburb
- Mofolo NorthSuburb
- DubeSuburb
- MofoloSuburb
Popular Destinations in Johannesburg
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. 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 Soweto. Photo: Digr, CC BY-SA 4.0.