Brakpan
Sign in to saveBrakpan is a mining town on the East Rand of Gauteng, South Africa, approximately 38 kilometres (23.6 mi) east of Johannesburg.
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- Brakpan
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- Town
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- 200px
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- Pentecost Protestant Church, Abramowitz Street, Brakpan
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- South Africa Gauteng#South Africa#Africa
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- Country
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- South Africa
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- Province
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- Gauteng
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- District
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- Municipality
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- Ekurhuleni
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- Main Place
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- Established
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- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 182.81
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 1631
- Settlement.population_total
- 73080
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Brakpan is a mining town on the East Rand of Gauteng, South Africa, approximately 38 kilometres (23.6 mi) east of Johannesburg.
==History== The name Brakpan comes from a small pan on a farm called Weltevreden, which was filled with very brackish water and was probably referred to as the "brakpan", and it was near this pan that the first settlement started. In 1888, a coal seam was discovered and a coal mine under the name of Brakpan Collieries was started. When a railway line was constructed from Germiston to Springs, Brakpan became one of the stations along the route.