Johannesburg (zaf)

Johannesburg

Johannesburg ranks 132nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Seville, Cincinnati, and Sarajevo. Memorable people born in Johannesburg include Allan MacLeod Cormack, F. W. de Klerk, and Miriam Makeba. Memorable people who died in Johannesburg include Nelson Mandela, Nadine Gordimer, and Reza Shah. 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. The City of Johannesburg itself has a population of 5,538,596, while the greater urban agglomeration exceeds 14.8 million, making it a megacity and one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, and seat of the country's highest court, the Constitutional Court. Situated in the mineral rich Witwatersrand hills, the city has long been at the epicentre of international mineral and gold trade. The richest city in Africa by GDP and private wealth, Johannesburg functions as the economic capital of South Africa and is home to the continent's largest stock exchange, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Read more on Wikipedia