Johannesburg, also called Jo’burg, Egoli and Jozi, is the largest city of South Africa. Due to its huge size Johannesburg has been divided into five districts; Central Johannesburg, Soweto, Sandton, Randburg and Roodepoort. The whole Johannesburg has almost 4 million populations in which Soweto is the most populated area. The South Africa’s blacks are the major contributors in Johannesburg’s population but it doesn’t mean that Whites, colored and Asian are fewer in number. The strange thing about Johannesburg is; no language dominates in Johannesburg as domination of languages can easily be seen in other cities of South Africa. Such characteristics compel tourists to ask for cheap flights to Johannesburg year round.

Being the largest city Johannesburg is shrewdly performing its responsibilities and this can be guessed while seeing the economic contribution of each city in South Africa’s economy. Few years back it was estimated that about 10% of Sub Saharan Africa’s GDP is added by Johannesburg, though the living conditions vary with area to area. Some areas depict the condition of 1st world country but some areas shows the conditions of 3rd world countries. The huge difference between the rich and poor resulted in high crime rate in the city but with the efforts of local and federal governments the crime rate has been managed to stay at its same position. However, don’t avoid Jo’berg because of its crime as tourists and locals are given high level of security therefore, the demand of Johannesburg flights is getting higher and higher.

Johannesburg has some of the tallest structures of Africa such as Hilbrow Tower, Carlton Centre and Sentech Tower etc. Some of the international organizations are also housed in Johannesburg, the list includes; Willis group, BHP Billiton, Absa, IBM, First National Bank, Standard Bank, Nedbank and Willis Group etc. Some of the old buildings have been persevered since long time but many of them are destroyed and built new buildings to replace old ones.

In last decade Johannesburg was not known as the tourist destination but from the last few years it has been renowned one of the most popular African destination. The major reason for maximum number of flights to Johannesburg, as compared to other South African cities, is O.R. Tambo International airport. Johannesburg is considered the transit point that connects international flights with Cape Town, Kurger National Park and Durban. Most of the South African tourists pass through Johannesburg that results need of more tourists’ attractions. South African government has played a major role to develop Johannesburg as a perfect traveling destination. Some newly made attractions are Apartheid Museum, history museum, Gold Reef City, Hector Pieterson Museum, amusement park and Johannesburg zoo etc.

Johannesburg is also playing a major role to increase sports’ revenue for the country. For the last few years Johannesburg hosted finals and semi finals of mega sport events including the final first ICC World Twenty 20. Now Johannesburg is well prepared to host the maximum number of FIFA World Cup 2010 matches. The track record of past few years shows that Johannesburg will not miss even a single point to make the mega event successful.

Well! There are a lot of facts and figures about Johannesburg that are worth to be mentioned but it is not possible to mention all its achievements in one page. However, from the above written material it gets confirmed that planning vacations in Johannesburg would be the best decision to enjoy your holidays.