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The southern suburbs, located in Regions 9, 10, and 11, extend to the south of the inner city, and are somewhat isolated from the rest of Johannesburg. On a map, the southern suburbs appear to hang down from the border of Soweto and Johannesburg South. It is about 40 kilometres south of the inner city.
Northriding is a suburb of Randburg, in Region C - formerly Johannesburg Region 5, South Africa, and borders fourways and other surrounding suburbs in the north of Johannesburg. The suburb was named after one of the three historic subdivisions of Yorkshire .
Joburg Market (formerly called the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market) is also situated at City Deep and was opened in September 1974. [3] It is a 65,000-square-metre (700,000-square-foot) facility, the largest market supplier of fruit and vegetables in South Africa and Africa with 45,000 buyers visiting each day. [4]
The Johannesburg Central Business District, commonly called Johannesburg CBD, is one of the main business centres of Johannesburg, South Africa.It is the densest collection of skyscrapers in Africa, however, due to white flight and urban blight, many of the buildings are unoccupied as tenants have left for more secure locations in the Northern Suburbs, in particular Sandton and Rosebank.
Johannesburg Park Station is the central railway station in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, and the largest railway station in Africa. [1] It is located between the Central Business District and Braamfontein , in the block bordered by Rissik, Wolmarans, Wanderers, and Noord Streets.
Houghton Estate, often simply called Houghton, is an affluent suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, north-east of the city centre. The area was designated for white residents as part of the Group Areas Act during the apartheid era and became known as one of the city's upper-class neighbourhoods. [2] [3]
Yeoville is an inner city neighbourhood of Johannesburg, in the province of Gauteng, South Africa.It is located in Region F (previously Region 8).Originally intended as a "well-to-do" neighbourhood, it instead developed into a white working class and lower middle class area as the city expanded northwards and public rail access improved. [2]
Maintained by Johannesburg Roads Agency and Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport: Length: 5.2 km (3.2 mi) Major junctions; East end: N3 near Modderfontein: M74 in Marlboro Gardens M11 in Marlboro Gardens M1 in Kramerville: West end: M85 in Sandown: Location; Country: South Africa: Highway system; Numbered routes of South Africa