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Johannesburg is the largest and most populous city in South Africa. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, and which has the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa. The city is one of the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the world (http://www.citypopulation.de/World.html), and Africa's only global city according to the Globalization and World Cities group's 1999 inventory, which classified it as a gamma world city) While Johannesburg does not form one of South Africa's three capital cities, it does house the South African Constitutional Court - South Africa's 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 International Airport, the largest and busiest airport in Africa and a gateway for international air travel to and from the rest of southern Africa.
According to the 2001 Census, the population of the city is more than three million. Johannesburg's land area of is very large when compared to other cities, resulting in a population density of only The population of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area is almost eight million. Johannesburg also encompasses Soweto to the south west, a township that the apartheid government established to accommodate the large number of migrant workers. (...) more....

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A push into the future has been given to Johannesburg by FIFA who awarded the 2010 World Soccer Cup to South Africa. This has seen a frenzy of building operations centered on the building of amazing new stadiums and the development of a rapid rail system, known as the Gautrain, linking OR Tambo International Airport to Sandton / Johannesburg and Pretoria, This will be of enormous benefit to those people arriving at OR Tambo and who need to be in Sandton 20 minutes after catching the Gautrain. The upgrading of the already impressive network of roads in and around Johannesburg as well as the building of a new rapid bus system is further evidence that Johannesburg has left its past behind, and is a better place to be in.

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