Johannesburg
Johannesburg is a large metropolis and South Africa's largest city. Once regarded as South Africa's crime capital in the turbulent nineties, the city has shaken off that reputation led by its youthful exuberant population and a growing black middle class, not to mention the omnipresent soundtrack of Amapiano and house music. Wikivoyage
Population 4,803,262 (Wikidata)
Before you go
Emergency numbers in South Africa
Getting there
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Still gathering the markets around Johannesburg. I'll let you know here when it's all in — or open the live guide.
Best-documented sights
All of them in the guide-
National Museum of Military History Museum · 960 m -
Johannesburg Zoo Zoo · 480 m - Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre Museum · 540 m
- War Memorial Anglo Boer War 1899-1902 Memorial · 820 m
Within a kilometre of the centre, ordered by how well documented each is — not by a "best" anyone decided. Each opens on the map in the guide. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited there.
Somewhere to run
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