Germiston

a city in South Africa, southeast of Johannesburg: industrial centre, with the world's largest gold refinery, serving the Witwatersrand mines. Pop.: 139 721 (2001)

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Germiston

a city, in Transvaal Province, Republic of South Africa. Located in Witwatersrand region. Population, 197,000 (1968, not including suburbs). Inhabited primarily by Africans and mulattoes; there are 65,200 Europeans. Germiston is a satellite city of Johannesburg. It is an important railroad and air-transportation junction. Railroad repair shops and a gold-refining plant are located there. It also has chemical, metalworking, glass, garment, food-processing, and cotton-ginning industries. Germiston is the site of a technical college.

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