Bryanston (South Africa)

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Bryanston
Bryanston (South Africa)
Bryanston
Bryanston
Coordinates 26 ° 2 '55 "  S , 28 ° 2' 2"  O Coordinates: 26 ° 2 '55 "  S , 28 ° 2' 2"  O
Basic data
Country South Africa

province

Gauteng
District Johannesburg
ISO 3166-2 ZA-GP
surface 21.2 km²
Residents 28,758 (2011)
density 1,356.5  Ew. / km²
founding 1969
Jacaranda Avenue in Bryanston
Jacaranda Avenue in Bryanston

Bryanston is a district of Sandton in the province of Gauteng in South Africa and part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality . In 2011, the population of Bryanston was 28,758.

geography

Bryanston is in the northern part of Johannesburg . The motorways M1 De Villiers Graaff motorway and N1 Western Bypass touch the district in the east and north.

history

Bryanston was founded in 1969, named after a town of the same name in Dorset , England , and quickly developed into an exclusive residential, business and shopping area.

Demographic data

The population of 15,344 people determined in 2001 is made up as follows: 66.96% white , 30.55% black African , 0.89% colored and 1.60% Asian . The main language at this point was English with 66.85%, followed by isiZulu with 6.42%, Afrikaans with 5.06%, Setswana with 4.87%, Sepedi with 4.55%, isiXhosa with 2.80%, Sesotho with 2.16% and other languages ​​with 7.29%.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History archive link ( Memento from August 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Shopping center http://www.bryanstoncentre.co.za/
  3. ↑ Census 2001 http://census.adrianfrith.com/place/77424011

Web links

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