Pretoria

Pretoria
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Motto(s):  Præstantia Prævaleat Prætoria (May Pretoria Be Pre-eminent In Excellence)
Pretoria Location o Pretorie
Coordinates (Church Square): 25°44′46″S 28°11′17″E / 25.74611°S 28.18806°E / -25.74611; 28.18806
Kintra	Sooth Africae
Province	Gauteng
Metropolitan municipality	City of Tshwane
Established	1855
Area
• Total	1644 km2 (635 sq mi)
Elevation	1271 m (4,170 ft)
Population  (2001)
• Total	2.1 million
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Area code(s)	012

Pretoria (Afrikaans pronunciation: [prɛˈtuəria]; Zulu: ePitoli) is a ceety locatit in the northren pairt o Gauteng Province, Sooth Africae. It is ane o the kintra's three caipital ceeties, servin as the executive (admeenistrative) an de facto naitional caipital; the ithers are Cape Toun, the legislative caipital, an Bloemfontein, the judicial caipital.

Pretoria is contained athin the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality as ane o several constituent umwhile admeenistrations (amang which an aa Centurion an Soshanguve). Pretoria itsel is whiles incorrectly referred tae as "Tshwane" in a controversial proposed name chynge, the status o which is still bein decidit an aw.

The ceety's oreeginal name wis Pretoria Philadelphia ("Pretoria o britherly love").^[2] It gae its name tae the Pax Praetoriana, referrin tae the kintra's relative stability.

1. ↑ Census 2001 — Statistics for Main Place
2. ↑ "Beeld". News24.com. Retrieved 3 Julie 2010.^{[deid airtin]}