Pretoria
Pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa and part of City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, is in Gauteng. Its wide avenues are lined with purple-flowered jacaranda trees and stately architecture.Photo: Petrus, Public domain.
Photo: NJR ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 742,000 residents
- Description: administrative capital of South Africa located in the Gauteng province
- Neighbors: Johannesburg
Photo: KlausFoehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Hendrik van den Berg, CC BY 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Ditsong National Museum of Natural History
Photo: Luckymelon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, formerly the Transvaal Museum, is a natural history museum situated in Pretoria, South Africa.
Pretoria Zoo
Photo: NJR ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The National Zoological Garden of South Africa is an 80-hectare zoo located in Pretoria, South Africa.
Kruger House
Photo: Borisgorelik, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kruger House is the historical Pretoria residence of the Boer leader and President of the South African Republic, Paul Kruger.
Localities in the Area
Sunnyside
Photo: JMK, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sunnyside is one of the oldest suburbs of the city of Pretoria, South Africa.
Lukasrand
Photo: Ossewa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lukasrand is an established suburb to the southeast of Pretoria, South Africa.
Pretoria West
Photo: PHParsons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pretoria West is a suburb of Pretoria, South Africa, situated 8.1 kilometres from the city centre.
Pretoria
- Categories: capital city, big city, administrative division and locality
- Location: City of Tshwane, Tshwane, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-25.7459° or 25° 44' 45" southLongitude
28.1879° or 28° 11' 17" eastPopulation
742,000Elevation
1,332 metres (4,370 feet)IATA airport code
PRYUnited Nations Location Code
ZA PRYOpen Location Code
5G6C753Q+J5OpenStreetMap ID
node 25503669OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
964137Wikidata ID
Q3926Pretoria Satellite Map
© OpenStreetMap, Mapbox and Maxar
Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Pretoria
- Abkhazian: Преториа
- Afrikaans: Pretoria
- Albanian: Pretoria
- Amharic: ፕሪቶሪያ
- Arabic: Pretoria
- Arabic: بريتوريا
- Aragonese: Pretoria
- Armenian: Պրետորիա
- Arpitan: Pretoria
- Asturian: Pretoria
- Avaric: Pretoria
- Azerbaijani: Pretoriya
- Balinese: Pretoria
- Bashkir: Претория
- Basque: Pretoria
- Belarusian: Прэторыя
- Bengali: প্রিটোরিয়া
- Bosnian: Pretoria
- Breton: Pretoria
- Bulgarian: Претория
- Catalan: Pretòria
- Cebuano: Pretoria
- Central Kurdish: پرێتۆریا
- Chechen: Претори
- Chinese: Pretoria
- Chinese: 斐京
- Chinese: 普利托利亞
- Chinese: 普利托里亞
- Chinese: 普勒多利亞
- Chinese: 普勒托利亞
- Chinese: 普里托利亞
- Chinese: 比勒陀利亚
- Chinese: 比勒陀利亞
- Chinese: 比勒陀里亞
- Chinese: 茨瓦内
- Chinese: 茨瓦尼
- Chinese: 茨瓦納
- Cornish: Pretoria
- Croatian: Pretoria
- Czech: Pretoria
- Czech: Pretorie
- Danish: Pretoria
- Dimli (individual language): Pretoria
- Dutch: Pretoria
- Egyptian Arabic: بريتوريا
- English: Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa
- English: Pretoria, Gauteng
- English: Pretoria, S. Africa
- English: Pretoria, S Africa
- English: Pretoria, South Africa
- English: ePitoli
- Esperanto: Pretorio
- Estonian: Pretoria
- Faroese: Pretoria
- Fiji Hindi: Pretoria
- Finnish: Pretoria
- French: Pretoria
- French: Prétoria
- Galician: Pretoria
- Georgian: პრეტორია
- German: Pretoria
- Greek: Πρετόρια/Πόλη του Ακρωτηρίου
- Greek: Πρετόρια
- Guarani: Pretoria
- Gujarati: પ્રિટોરિયા
- Haitian: Pretoria
- Hakka Chinese: Pretoria
- Hausa: Pretoria
- Hebrew: פרטוריה
- Hindi: प्रिटोरिया
- Hindi: प्रॆटोर्य
- Hungarian: Pretoria
- Icelandic: Pretoría
- Ido: Pretoria
- Inari Sami: Pretoria
- Indonesian: Pretoria
- Interlingua: Pretoria
- Interlingue: Pretoria
- Irish: Pretoria
- Italian: Pretoria
- Japanese: プレトリア
- Javanese: Pretoria
- Kabiyè: Pretooriyaa
- Kabiyè: Pretoria
- Kabyle: Pretoria
- Kannada: ಪ್ರಿಟೋರಿಯಾ
- Kannada: ಪ್ರೆಟೋರ್ಯ
- Kazakh: Претория
- Kirghiz: Претория
- Kongo: Pretoria
- Korean: 프리토리아
- Kotava: Pretoria
- Kurdish: Pretoria
- Latin: Praetoria
- Latvian: Pretorija
- Ligurian: Pretoria
- Lingala: Pretoria
- Lingua Franca Nova: Pretoria
- Lithuanian: Pretorija
- Livvi: Pretourii
- Lombard: Pretoria
- Luxembourgish: Pretoria
- Macedonian: Преторија
- Malagasy: Pretoria
- Malay: Pretoria
- Malayalam: പ്രിട്ടോറിയ
- Maltese: Pretoria
- Manx: Pretoria
- Maori: Piritōria
- Marathi: प्रिटोरिया
- Mazanderani: پرتوریا
- Min Dong Chinese: Pretoria
- Min Nan Chinese: Pretoria
- Min Nan Chinese: Tshwane
- Mingrelian: პრეტორია
- Moksha: Претория
- Moroccan Arabic: پريطوريا
- Navajo: Tsindiitłʼííshí
- Nepali: प्रिटोरीया
- Northern Frisian: Pretoria
- Northern Sami: Pretoria
- Norwegian: Pretoria
- Norwegian Bokmål: Pretoria
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Pretoria
- Novial: Pretoria
- Nyanja: Pretoria
- Occitan (post 1500): Pretòria
- Ossetian: Претори
- Panjabi: ਪ੍ਰਿਟੋਰੀਆ
- Papiamento: Pretoria
- Pedi: Pitori
- Pedi: Pretoria
- Pedi: Tshwane
- Pennsylvania German: Pretoria
- Persian: پرتوریا
- Piemontese: Pretoria
- Polish: Pretoria
- Portuguese: Pretoria
- Portuguese: Pretória
- Portuguese: Pretória, Gauteng
- Portuguese: Pretória, Gauteng, África do Sul
- Portuguese: Pretória, África do Sul
- Pushto: پرتوریا
- Quechua: Priturya
- Romanian: Pretoria
- Romansh: Pretoria
- Russian: Претория
- Sardinian: Pretòria
- Scots: Pretoria
- Scots: ePitoli
- Scottish Gaelic: Pretoria
- Serbian: Преторија
- Serbo-Croatian: Pretoria
- Shona: Pretoria
- Sicilian: Pretoria
- Silesian: Pretoria
- Sinhala: ප්රිටෝරියා
- Skolt Sami: Pretoria
- Slovak: Pretória
- Slovenian: Pretorija
- Somali: Pretoria
- Spanish: Pretoria
- Swahili: Pretoria
- Swati: IPitoli
- Swati: Pitoli
- Swedish: Pretoria
- Swedish: Tshwane
- Tagalog: Pretoria
- Tajik: Претория
- Tamil: பிரிட்டோரியா
- Tatar: Pretoriä
- Telugu: ప్రిటోరియా
- Thai: พริทอเรีย
- Tibetan: ཕི་རི་ཐོ་རི་ཡ།
- Tornedalen Finnish: Pretoria
- Tsonga: Pitori
- Tsonga: Pretoria
- Turkish: Pretoria
- Udmurt: Претория
- Uighur: Prétoriye
- Ukrainian: Преторія
- Upper Sorbian: Pretoria
- Urdu: پریٹوریا
- Uzbek: Pretoriya
- Venda: Pretoria
- Venetian: Pretoria
- Veps: Pretorii
- Vietnamese: Pretoria
- Volapük: Pretoria
- Waray (Philippines): Pretoria
- Welsh: Pretoria
- Western Frisian: Pretoria
- Western Panjabi: پریٹوریا
- Wu Chinese: 比勒陀利亚
- Xhosa: E-Pitoli
- Yiddish: פרעטאריע
- Yoruba: Pretoria
- Yue Chinese: 普利托里亞
- Zeeuws: Pretoria
- Zulu: IPitoli
- Pta
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In the Area
- Pretoria CentralSuburb
- Capital ParkSuburb
- ArcadiaSuburb
- Capital ParkSuburb
- MuckleneukSuburb
- RietondaleSuburb
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