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Turffontein
Sign in to saveTurffontein is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in ZA, across 3 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Johannesburg Region F.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- suburb
- Country
- South Africa
- Image
- Turffontein Racecourse.jpg
- Dialing code
- 011
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- postal code
- 2140
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Turffontein is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
==History== Prior to the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the suburb lay on land on one of the original farms called Turffontein. It became a suburb on 27 September 1886.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Turffontein” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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3 mapped locations