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, Ernest Oppenheimer, and György Bródy. Johannesburg has been the birth place of many athletes, and actors and the death place of many politicians, and racing drivers. Johannesburg is located in South Africa.

Johannesburg is the most populous city in South Africa. With 5,538,596 people in the City of Johannesburg alone and over 14.8 million in the urban agglomeration, it is classified as 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. The city is located within the mineral-rich Witwatersrand hills, the epicentre of the 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