City Map Compare/Harare vs Johannesburg
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Harare

603 km²

Johannesburg

1,756 km²

Harare vs Johannesburg: Urban Area Size

Johannesburg covers 1,756 km² of contiguous built-up land, 2.9× the built-up area of Harare (603 km²).

HarareJohannesburg
Urban areaHarareJohannesburg
Population (2025)2.08 million8.59 million
Built-up area603 km²1,756 km²
Density3,443 /km²4,893 /km²

Urban area = contiguous built-up land and the people living in it in 2025, drawn the same way for every city regardless of administrative boundaries. Source: GHSL Urban Centre Database R2024A, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0); some names adjusted to the city names people use, and country attribution follows the dataset.

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