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  2. Urban forest - Wikipedia

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    Some sources claim that the largest man-made urban forest in the world is located in Johannesburg in South Africa. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The city is located in the highveld , a grassland biome typically lacking large numbers of trees, yet Johannesburg is still a very densely wooded city with reportedly 10 million [ 6 ] artificially introduced trees and ...

  3. Johannesburg - Wikipedia

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    Johannesburg is the economic and financial hub of South Africa, producing 16% of South Africa's gross domestic product, and accounts for 40% of Gauteng's economic activity. [citation needed] In a 2008 survey conducted by Mastercard, Johannesburg ranked 47 out of 50 top cities in the world as a worldwide centre of commerce (the only city in Africa).

  4. Tijuca National Park - Wikipedia

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    The park boundaries as of 2011. Tijuca National Park is claimed to be the world's largest urban forest, [1] covering some 39.58 square kilometres (15.28 sq mi), [8] although this title is disputed with Johannesburg, South Africa.

  5. Gauteng - Wikipedia

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    Situated on the Highveld, Gauteng is the smallest province by land area in South Africa. Although Gauteng accounts for only 1.5% of the country's land area, it is the most populous province in South Africa, with more than a quarter (26%) of the national population; [7] the provincial population was approximately 16.1 million, according to mid ...

  6. Roodepoort - Wikipedia

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    Roodepoort is located approximately 20 kilometres west of Johannesburg on the western rural-urban fringe of the Greater Johannesburg metropolis and at the gateway to the West Rand. It is bordered by Cosmo City to the north, Randburg to the east, Soweto to the south and Krugersdorp to the west.

  7. The Wilds (Johannesburg) - Wikipedia

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    The Wilds is an inner city park and nature reserve in the suburb of Houghton, in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. The park consists of 16 hectares of indigenous vegetation on the sides of two rocky koppies or hills with views of the city of Johannesburg and its suburbs. Through the 1990s the park gained a reputation for being highly ...

  8. Forest Town, Gauteng - Wikipedia

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    Forest Town, as the name implies, is a leafy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It lies between the busy thoroughfares of Jan Smuts Avenue and Oxford Road , and is bordered to one side by the Johannesburg Zoo .

  9. Magaliesberg Biosphere Reserve - Wikipedia

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    The Magaliesberg Biosphere Reserve is located in South Africa between the cities of Pretoria and Johannesburg to the east and Rustenburg to the west. The reserve lies at the interface of two great African biomes — the Central Grassland Plateaux and the sub-Saharan savannah — and the remnants of a third biome, the Afro‐montane forest.

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