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Benoni

Benoni is a town on the East Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, some 26 kilometres (16 mi) east of Johannesburg, within the City of Ekurhuleni municipality.

Benoni
Benoni · Wikimedia Commons (see file page)
The place

Benoni is a town on the East Rand, Gauteng, South Africa, some 26 kilometres (16 mi) east of Johannesburg, within the City of Ekurhuleni municipality.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Benoni

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Willowmoore Park

    Willowmoore Park is a multi-purpose stadium in Benoni, South Africa. It is currently used mostly for cricket matches and hosted two matches during the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

    800 m · cricket stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Bosman Stadium

    Bosman Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Brakpan, South Africa. The Falcons Currie Cup team has historically used this ground as their home base.

    6.5 km · building in South Africa · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Benoni

Airports
O.R. Tambo (JNB), 9 km · Lanseria (HLA), 48 km · Polokwane (PTG), 285 km
Stations
OR Tambo International Airport, 9.2 km
  • Johannesburg → Benoni
    28 km · quickest by road, 38 min · R28–37
  • Polokwane → Benoni
    279 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · R280–375
  • Mbombela → Benoni
    277 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · R280–375
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Benoni

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Benoni. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    SossusvleiNA

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,310 km
  2. 02
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    1,500 km
  3. 03
    Cape Maclear (Chembe)MW

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,515 km
  4. 04
    Ilha de MoçambiqueMZ

    11 ways of moving, 47 sources

    1,788 km
  5. 05
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,506 km

If you know how people move in Benoni – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Benoni

Benoni is 7 km from Boksburg, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.