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===Witwatersrand area=== {{See|Witwatersrand}} In the southern half of Gauteng, the Witwatersrand area is an older term describing a 120 km wide oblong-shaped conurbation from [[Randfontein]] in the West to [[Nigel, Gauteng|Nigel]] in the East, named after the [[Witwatersrand]], a geologically and economically important series of low ridges and their associated plateau that greater Johannesburg developed on. This area is also often referred to simply as "Witwatersrand", "the Rand" or "the Reef" (archaic, after the gold reefs that precipitated the development of the area), and was the "W" in ''PWV'', the initial name for Gauteng. It has traditionally been divided into the three areas of [[East Rand]] (governed by the [[Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality]]), Central Rand (approximately today's [[City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality|Johannesburg Municipality]]) and [[West Rand]].<ref>{{cite book|title=South African Journal of Science|date=1975|publisher=South African Association for the Advancement of Science|page=365|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gEkqAAAAMAAJ|language=en|access-date=23 September 2020|archive-date=5 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005121322/https://books.google.com/books?id=gEkqAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|publisher=BMS-Verlage GmbH|title=Maps - Johannesburg (South Africa) β Gold mining belt Witwatersrand|url=http://www.diercke.com/kartenansicht.xtp?artId=978-3-14-100790-9&seite=161&id=17664&kartennr=3|website=Diercke International Atlas|access-date=27 November 2017|archive-date=27 March 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200327001857/http://www.diercke.com/kartenansicht.xtp?artId=978-3-14-100790-9&seite=161&id=17664&kartennr=3|url-status=live}}</ref>
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