Albertville, Gauteng

Albertville
Albertville
	Albertville Albertville
	Coordinates: 26°09′52″S 27°58′37″E / 26.16444°S 27.97694°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Area
• Total	0.88 km2 (0.34 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	4,649
• Density	5,300/km2 (14,000/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	49.6%
• Coloured	12.4%
• Indian/Asian	5.1%
• White	32.4%
• Other	0.5%
First languages (2011)
• 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

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

[census2011-1] "Sub Place Albertville". Census 2011.

[Dict01-2] Raper, Peter E.; Moller, Lucie A.; du Plessis, Theodorus L. (2014). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names. Jonathan Ball Publishers. p. 1412. ISBN 9781868425501.

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