Pretoria
administrative capital of South Africa located in the Gauteng province
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Summary
Pretoria is a big city[1]. Pretoria ranks in the top 8% of big city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,858 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality[3]
- Country: South Africa[4]
- Head of government: Cilliers Brink[5]
- Continent: Africa[6]
- Instance of: administrative territorial entity[7], administrative centre[8], administrative capital[9], executive capital[10]
- Shares border with: Johannesburg[11]
- Named after: Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius[12]
- Flag: flag of Pretoria[13]
- Twinned administrative body: Amman[14], Bethlehem[15], Baku[16], Delft[17], Johannesburg[18], Kyiv[19], Taipei[20], Tehran[21], Washington, D.C.[22], Port Louis[23]
- Postal code: 0001 • 0002[24]
- Commons category: Pretoria[25]
- Located in time zone: UTC+02:00[26]
- Local dialing code: 012[27]
- Inception: November 16, 1855[28]
- Official website: https://www.tshwane.gov.za/[29]
- Topic's main category: Category:Pretoria[30]
- Population: 741,651[31]
- Described by source: Granat Encyclopedic Dictionary[32], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[33], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[34], 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica[35], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[36], The New Student's Reference Work[37]
- Capital of: South Africa[38], South African Republic[39], City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality[40], Transvaal Colony[41], Union of South Africa[42], Transvaal Province[43]
- Category for people born here: Category:Births in Pretoria[44]
- Category for people who died here: Category:Deaths in Pretoria[45]
- Demonym: Prétorien[46], Prétorienne[47]
- Native label: Pretoria[48]
- Category of associated people: Category:People from Pretoria[49]
- Different from: Pretoria[50]
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Physical Characteristics
Pretoria covers an area of 688 km²[51]. Elevations include 1339 m[52] and 1332 m[53].
Why It Matters
Pretoria has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[54] Pretoria is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[55]