Cyrildene | |
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| Coordinates:26°10′23″S28°06′04″E / 26.173°S 28.101°E /-26.173; 28.101 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
| Main Place | Johannesburg |
| Established | 1938 |
| Area | |
• Total | 1.20 km2 (0.46 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 3,417 |
| • Density | 2,850/km2 (7,370/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 26.5% |
| • Coloured | 3.0% |
| • Indian/Asian | 33.9% |
| • White | 31.1% |
| • Other | 5.5% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • English | 55.8% |
| • Zulu | 3.7% |
| • Afrikaans | 3.4% |
| • Northern Sotho | 2.1% |
| • Other | 35.0% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 2198 |
Cyrildene (simplified Chinese:西里尔德纳;traditional Chinese:西里爾德納) is a suburb ofJohannesburg,South Africa, predominantly home to Chinese people. The area is found east of theJohannesburg CBD and is surrounded by the suburbs ofLinksfield,Observatory andBruma. It is noted for a new Chinatown that exists on Derrick Avenue. This new Chinatown is now considered as the main Chinatown in Johannesburg, replacing the declining Chinatown onCommissioner Street in the inner-city of Johannesburg. It is located in Region F of theCity of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
The suburb is situated on part of an oldWitwatersrand farm calledDoornfontein.[2] It would be proclaimed as suburb on 18 May 1938 and was named after the land developer's son, Cyril Cooper.[2]
Up until approximately 2000 Cyrildene was a predominantlyJewish neighborhood. Unlike the old and now largely abandoned Chinatown inNewtown, which was largely made up of second or third generationSouth African Chinese, the new inhabitants of the Chinatown in Cyrildene are overwhelmingly first generation Chinese immigrants frommainland China.[3] The Chinatown has apaifang (arch).
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