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Jo'burg

Jo'burg is the alternative spelling of Joburg.

Meaning of Joburg

Proper noun

Joburg

  1. (South Africa, Zimbabwe, colloquial) Syllabic abbreviation of Johannesburg: the largest city in South Africa, in Gauteng province.

Questions about Jo'burg

What is Jo'burg the alternative spelling of?
Jo'burg is the alternative spelling of Joburg.

Words near Jo'burg in the dictionary

  1. JNUSU
  2. jo
  3. Jo block
  4. Jo blocks
  5. Jo Daviess County
  6. Jo'burg
  7. Jo-Ann
  8. Jo-Anne
  9. Jo-ch'iang
  10. Jo-chiang
  11. jo-jeezly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Jo'burg (page history and authors); Joburg (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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