Pretoria

administrative capital of South Africa located in the Gauteng province
Organization big_city Q3926
Pretoria
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Pretoria

Summary

Pretoria is a big city[1]. Pretoria ranks in the top 8% of big_city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,346 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Pretoria is located in City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality[3].
  • Pretoria is in the country of South Africa[4].
  • Pretoria's head of government is recorded as Cilliers Brink[5].
  • Pretoria's image is recorded as Pretoria CBD1.jpg[6].
  • Pretoria's continent is recorded as Africa[7].
  • Pretoria's instance of is recorded as big city[8].
  • Pretoria's instance of is recorded as administrative territorial entity[9].
  • Pretoria's instance of is recorded as administrative centre[10].
  • Pretoria's instance of is recorded as administrative capital[11].
  • Pretoria's instance of is recorded as executive capital[12].
  • Pretoria's flag image is recorded as Flag of Pretoria, South Africa.svg[13].
  • Pretoria's shares border with is recorded as Johannesburg[14].
  • Pretoria's coat of arms image is recorded as Coat of arms of Pretoria.svg[15].
  • Andries Wilhelmus Jacobus Pretorius is named after Pretoria[16].
  • Pretoria's flag is recorded as flag of Pretoria[17].
  • Pretoria's twinned administrative body is recorded as Amman[18].
  • Pretoria's twinned administrative body is recorded as Bethlehem[19].
  • Pretoria's twinned administrative body is recorded as Baku[20].
  • Pretoria's twinned administrative body is recorded as Delft[21].
  • Pretoria's twinned administrative body is recorded as Johannesburg[22].
  • Pretoria's twinned administrative body is recorded as Kyiv[23].
  • Pretoria's twinned administrative body is recorded as Taipei[24].
  • Pretoria's twinned administrative body is recorded as Tehran[25].
  • Pretoria's twinned administrative body is recorded as Washington, D.C.[26].
  • Pretoria's twinned administrative body is recorded as Port Louis[27].

Body

Founding

+1855-11-16T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Pretoria[28].

Why It Matters

Pretoria ranks in the top 8% of big_city entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,346 views/month).[2] Pretoria has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] Pretoria is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] . wikidata.org.
  10. [13] . wikidata.org.
  11. [14] . wikidata.org.
  12. [15] . wikidata.org.
  13. [3] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . old.kyivcity.gov.ua. old.kyivcity.gov.ua. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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