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Metropolitan municipality in South Africa

City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality

The City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of the East Rand region of Gauteng, a large suburban region east of Johannesburg.

City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
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The place

The City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality is a metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of the East Rand region of Gauteng, a large suburban region east of Johannesburg. Ekurhuleni means "place of peace" in XiTsonga. Ekurhuleni is one of the five districts of Gauteng and one of the eight metropolitan municipalities of South Africa. The seat of Ekurhuleni is Germiston and the most spoken language is Zulu at 28.6%. The city is home to South Africa's busiest airport, OR Tambo International Airport, which is in the Kempton Park area of Ekurhuleni.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality

One place 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.

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    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.

    3.6 km · cricket stadium · Wikipedia

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Getting to City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality

Airports
O.R. Tambo (JNB), 6 km · Lanseria (HLA), 45 km · Polokwane (PTG), 283 km
  • Johannesburg → City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
    28 km · quickest by road, 38 min · R28–37
  • Polokwane → City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
    279 km · quickest by road, 4h 21m · R280–375
  • Mbombela → City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
    277 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · R280–375
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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 City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
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    SossusvleiNA

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,308 km
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    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    1,498 km
  3. 03
    Cape Maclear (Chembe)MW

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,513 km
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    Ilha de MoçambiqueMZ

    11 ways of moving, 47 sources

    1,788 km
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    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,505 km

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Around it

Next door to City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality

City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality is 3 km from Benoni, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • BenoniTown in the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng, South Africa3.2 km