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Johannesburg is the most populous city in South Africa. Local residents have nicknamed the city "Jo'burg", "Jozi" and "eGoli". Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng Province, the wealthiest province in South Africa, and the site of the South African Constitutional Court. The city is one of the 40 largest metropolitan areas in the world, and Africa's only global city (classified as a gamma world city). Whilst sometimes mistakenly assumed to be South Africa's capital city, Johannesburg is not even one of South Africa's three official capital cities (although Pretoria, which is arguably part of the same urban entity, is).

Johannesburg is the site 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 Johannesburg 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 1,644 km² is very large when compared to other cities, resulting in a population density of only 1,962/km². The population of the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Area is almost eight million. Johannesburg also encompasses Soweto to the south west, a township which the apartheid government established to accommodate the large number of migrant workers.

Johannesburg is twinned with New York City, United States, and Birmingham, United Kingdom.

South Africa will be the host nation for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It will be the first time the tournament is held in Africa.

External links

• Africa's Failed Economic History - Yale Economic Review

• Lending Africa an Invisible Hand - Yale Economic Review

• BBC: Africa's Economy

• Africa Economic Analysis

• World Economic Forum - Africa

• African Development Bank Group

• IMF World Economic Outlook (WEO) -- September 2003 -- Public Debt in Emerging Markets

• Why is Africa so Poor?

• Language and Africa

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  • allAfrica.com current news, events and statistics

  • BBC News In Depth - Africa 2005: Time for Change?

  • Guardian Unlimited - Special Report: Hear Africa 05

  • Yale Economic Review Africa:Failed Economic History

  Photos and Information

  • L'Afrique Hundreds of photographs of Rwanda, Ethiopia, Senegal, and Burundi. Also articles in French and English.

  • Jungle Photos Jungle Photos Africa provides images and information on various countries in sub-Saharan Africa.

  • Africam - African Wildlife Webcams

  • Afrika.no News

  • News- African News Agency

  • Inter Press Service-Africa

  Directories

  • Africa Homepage

  • Contemporary Africa Database

  • AfricaResource.com Africaresource.com is an educational portal that develops and distributes content.

  • Columbia University - African Studies

  • The Index on Africa directory from The Norwegian Council for Africa

  • Library of Congress - African & Middle Eastern Reading Room

  • Open Directory Project - Africa directory category

  • Stanford University - Africa South of the Sahara

  • University of Chicago - Joseph Regenstein Library: African Studies

  • University of Pennsylvania - African Studies Center

  Politics

  • Africa Action Africa Action is the oldest organization in the United States working on African affairs. It is a national organization that works for political, economic and social justice in Africa.

  • African Anarchism: The History of a Movement

  • An Irish anarchist in Africa, western Africa from anarchist perspective.

  • Commission for Africa

  • African Unification Front

  • Working class history in Africa -- people's and grassroots histories

  Sports

  • Confederation of African Football; in English and French

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