Mountain View, Johannesburg

Mountain View
Mountain View
	Mountain View Mountain View
	Coordinates: 26°10′05″S 28°04′55″E / 26.168°S 28.082°E
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Established	1902
Area
• Total	0.25 km2 (0.10 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	358
• Density	1,400/km2 (3,700/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	48.5%
• Coloured	1.9%
• Indian/Asian	0.8%
• White	46.0%
• Other	2.8%
First languages (2011)
• English	59.8%
• Zulu	17.0%
• Southern Ndebele	5.0%
• Afrikaans	3.6%
• Other	14.5%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
PO box	2470

Mountain View is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

History

The suburb is situated on part of an old Witwatersrand farm called Klipfontein.^[2] It was established in 1902 and was named because of it view of the northern Magaliesberg mountains.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Sub Place Mountain View". 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 Mountain View". 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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