HOW TO PRONOUNCE
johannesburg
/d͡ʒoʊˈhænɪsbɜːrɡ/
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What does johannesburg mean?
proper noun
- The largest city in South Africa, provincial capital of the province of Gauteng.
- A census-designated place in Kern County, California, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Otsego County, Michigan, United States.
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/d͡ʒoʊˈhænɪsbɜːrɡ/
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People often come from very long distances to work in the diamond mines at Kimberley and in the gold mines at Johannesburg.
He cabled the renowned Johannesburg letter of invitation to the London press—the gray-headedest piece of ancient history that ever went over a cable.
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The trip to Kimberley, Johannesburg, and Pretoria was a pleasant one.
Owing to the strongly marked facial characteristics of some of the customers in these places, who were mostly from Johannesburg, I at first imagined that I must have wandered inadvertently into Jerusalem, or that I had perhaps drifted to some fashionable health resort on the shores of the Dead Sea.