Albertville, Gauteng

Albertville
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Coordinates: 26°09′52″S27°58′37″E / 26.16444°S 27.97694°E / -26.16444; 27.97694
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Area [1]
• Total	0.88 km2 (0.34 sq mi)
Population  (2011) [1]
• Total	4,649
• Density	5,300/km2 (14,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
•  Black African	49.6%
•  Coloured	12.4%
•  Indian/Asian	5.1%
•  White	32.4%
• Other	0.5%
First languages (2011) [1]
•  English	35.2%
•  Afrikaans	31.7%
•  Zulu	7.8%
•  Northern Sotho	5.2%
• Other	20.1%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)

Albertville is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region B of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

History

The suburb is named after the previous landowner Hendrick Abraham Alberts with the land being surveyed in 1896. ^[2] The land is situated on a portion of an old Witwatersrand farm called Waterval. ^[2]

References

1. "Sub Place Albertville". Census 2011.
2. Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN   9781868425501.