Johannesburg Johannesburg Johannesburg (; ; also known as Jozi, Joburg, and eGoli) is the largest city in South Africa and one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world. It is the provincial capital and largest city of Gauteng, which is the wealthiest province in South Africa. While Johannesburg is not one of South Africa's three capital cities, it is the seat of the Constitutional Court. The city is located in the mineral-rich Witwatersrand range of hills and is the centre of large-scale gold and diamond trade. The metropolis is an alpha global city as listed by the Globalization and
Johannesburg Internet Exchange beyond its initial base of operations to additional locations within the metropolitan area. Johannesburg Internet Exchange JINX (Johannesburg Internet Exchange), located at Johannesburg, South Africa, is an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in South Africa. It is run by INX-ZA, which is an autonomous arm of the Internet Service Providers' Association of South Africa (ISPA). JINX started operating in 1996. The amount of traffic processed by the JINX has been steadily growing, and growth has been exponential in the second half of the 2000s (decade), with, for example, 450 Mbps peak-hour load in 2008 that almost doubled to 800 Mbit/s in