A Sightseeing Tour Around the Earth Gauteng South Africa.ppt

A Sightseeing Tour Around the Earth : Gauteng South Africa By Salvatore and Gabriella Homeschooled in Johannesburg South Africa by Penny iLearn ppm1- Places and Perspectives January – May 2008 GAUTENG SOUTH AFRICA We live in Bedfordview, which falls into Ekurhuleni. Click on the link below: /visitgauteng?target= GAUTENG FACTS Capital: Johannesburg Languages: 21.5% isiZulu, 14.4% Afrikaans, 13.1% Sesotho, 12.5% EnglishPopulation: 9 525 571 (2006) Share of SA population: 20.1% Area: 16 548 square kilometers Share of total SA area: 1.4% Population density: 576 people per square kilometers Gross regional product: R413.6-billion Share of total SA GDP: 33.3% History of Gauteng Click on these links for a history of Gauteng: /events.aspx?q= Bif200804260253058128281p=1 http://www.southafrica.co.za/history_28.html Historic Buildings of Johannesburg Johannesburg was founded in 1886 and is the largest and most populous city in South Africa. It is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa. The city is one of the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the world, it is Africas most advanced city, and one of Africas only two global cities, the other being Cairo. Johannesburg City Hallnow houses the Gauteng provinciallegislature While Johannesburg does not form one of South Africas three capital cities, it does house the Constitutional Court- South Africas highest court. Johannesburg is the source of a large-scale gold and diamond trade, due to its location on the mineral –rich Witwatersrand range of hills. Johannesburg is also served by O.R Tambo , the largest and busiest airport in Africa and a gateway for international air travel to and from the rest of southern Africa. Soweto is situate in the south west of Johannesburg. Soweto is a township that the apartheid government established to a