Sydenham, Gauteng

Sydenham
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Location within Greater Johannesburg  Sydenham
Coordinates: 26°09′11″S 28°05′31″E / 26.153°S 28.092°E / -26.153; 28.092Coordinates: 26°09′11″S 28°05′31″E / 26.153°S 28.092°E / -26.153; 28.092
Country	South Africa
Province	Gauteng
Municipality	City of Johannesburg
Main Place	Johannesburg
Area
• Total	1.17 km2 (0.45 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	3,368
• Density	2,900/km2 (7,500/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	29.3%
• Coloured	1.3%
• Indian/Asian	1.5%
• White	65.9%
• Other	2.0%
First languages (2011)
• English	69.1%
• Zulu	6.9%
• Northern Sotho	5.3%
• Afrikaans	4.4%
• Other	14.3%
Postal code (street)	2192

Sydenham is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E. The suburb is surrounded by the area of Orchards, Orange Grove and other smaller suburbs.

The suburb was surveyed for housing in 1905. The suburbs name comes from the name of the farm which originated sometime before the mid-1890s. In 1910, Sydenham was still quite rural and on 26 February of that year, the land was used by Frenchman Albert Kimmerling to fly a Voisin biplane a few hundred yards and proved that aircraft could be flown at a high altitude of 2000m.