Vanderbijlpark
Vanderbijlpark is an industrial city with approximately 95,000 inhabitants, situated on the Vaal River in the south of Gauteng province, South Africa.
Vanderbijlpark is an industrial city with approximately 95,000 inhabitants, situated on the Vaal River in the south of Gauteng province, South Africa. The city is named after Hendrik van der Bijl, an electrical engineer and industrialist.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Vanderbijlpark
3 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.
- 01Vaal University of Technology
Vaal University of Technology is a higher education institution in South Africa. It attracts students from all over the country.
2.8 km · public university in South Africa · Wikipedia - 02George Thabe Stadium
George Thabe Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Sharpeville, Gauteng, South Africa. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home venue of Real Barcelona F.C. in the SAFA Second Division.
3.3 km · multi-purpose stadium in Sharpeville, Gauteng, South Africa · Wikipedia - 03Boipatong Memorial and Youth Heritage Centre
The Boipatong Memorial and Youth Heritage Centre is a South African heritage site and community center located in the township of Boipatong, near Vanderbijlpark in the Gauteng Province. The center was established to honor the victims of the Boipatong massacre, which took place on 17 June 1992, and to serve as a hub for local youth development, skills training, and historical education.
4 km · memorial and Centre, 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.
Getting to Vanderbijlpark
- Airports
- O.R. Tambo (JNB), 74 km · Lanseria (HLA), 85 km
- Johannesburg → Vanderbijlpark60 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · R65–85
- Bloemfontein → Vanderbijlpark312 km · quickest by road, 4h 39m · R300–400
- Polokwane → Vanderbijlpark353 km · quickest by road, 5h 19m · R345–465
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Vanderbijlpark
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 Vanderbijlpark. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 011,268 km
- 021,567 km
- 031,588 km
- 041,862 km
- 052,579 km
If you know how people move in Vanderbijlpark – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Vanderbijlpark
Vanderbijlpark is 9 km from Vereeniging, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Vereenigingcity in Gauteng province, South Africa10 km
- Sharpevilletownship in Gauteng, South Africa4.8 km
- Emfuleni Local Municipalitylocal municipality in Gauteng, South Africa9.2 km
- Viljoensdrifhuman settlement in South Africa8.9 km
- Boipatonghuman settlement in South Africa3.9 km