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Kempton Park is a city on the East Rand in the Gauteng province, South Africa. Formerly an independent municipality in the Transvaal, Kempton Park no longer has its own municipal government, and has been part of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality since 2000. Kempton Park is located north-east of Johannesburg, South Africa's largest city, and south of Pretoria, the administrative capital. It is situated next to Tembisa, one of the largest townships in South Africa. The name of the city is sometimes written as "Kemptonpark" in Afrikaans. It was established in 1903 when Karl Wolff sub-divided a portion of his Zuurfontein farm into residential stands and named the new town Kempten after the German town in Bavaria of his birth. The name was anglicised into Kempton Park. O. R. Tambo International Airport (Africa's busiest airport) is located in Kempton Park.〔"(Background )." Ekurhuleni. 3 (3/8). Retrieved on 30 September 2009.〕 In 1952 the airport, then known as Jan Smuts International Airport, was built on land next to the community, and opened in 1953.〔 The airport's name was changed to Johannesburg International Airport in the late 1990s and then to OR Tambo International Airport in 2006. The city has six major high schools (secondary schools): Jeugland Hoërskool,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hoërskool Jeugland )〕 Kempton Hoër (Kempton High),〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hoërskool Kempton Park )〕 Rhodesfield High School,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rhodesfield Technical High School )〕 Birchleigh Hoër,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Hoërskool Birchleigh )〕 Norkem Park High〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Norkem Park High School )〕 and Sir Pierre van Ryneveld.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Pierre Van Ryneveld High School )〕 The Kempton Park Golf Course, first designed in 1965, in Spartan is known as the club where Ernie Els learnt how to play golf. ==Suburbs== Kempton Park was declared a City in 1992 and has the following suburbs: *Cresslawn *Birchleigh *Kempton Park West *Edleen *Van Riebeeck Park *Glen Marais *Norkem Park *Allen Grove *Nimrod Park *Rhodesfield *Bonaero Park *Terenure *Esther Park *Aston Manor *Spartan *Croydon *Bredell *Pomona *Birch Acres *Birchleigh North Spartan is a large industrial zone which houses many chemical manufacturing and other industrial sites. Kempton Park also has a large coal power station named Kelvin power station. Tembisa is a large township situated to the north of Kempton Park on the East Rand, Gauteng, South Africa. It was established in 1957 when Africans were resettled from Alexandra and other areas in Edenvale, Kempton Park, Midrand and Germiston. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kempton Park, Gauteng」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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