Johannesburg (zaf)

Johannesburg

Johannesburg ranks 132nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Seville, Cincinnati, and Sarajevo. Memorable people born in Johannesburg include Miriam Makeba, F. W. de Klerk, and Allan MacLeod Cormack. Memorable people who died in Johannesburg include Nelson Mandela, Reza Shah, and Nadine Gordimer. Johannesburg has been the birth place of many athletes, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and soccer players. Johannesburg is located in South Africa.

Johannesburg is the most populous city in South Africa with 4,803,262 people, and is classified as a megacity; it is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. It is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa. Johannesburg is the seat of the Constitutional Court, the highest court in South Africa. Most of the major South African companies and banks have their head offices in Johannesburg. The city is located within the mineral-rich Witwatersrand hills, the epicentre of the international-scale mineral, gold and (specifically) diamond trade. Read more on Wikipedia