City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality

The City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality, also called the City of Tshwane, is the metropolitan municipality that forms the local government of northern Gauteng in South Africa. The metropolitan area is centred on the city of Pretoria, with surrounding towns and localities included in the local government area. Its name is rendered differently in the country's official languages, among them Masipala wa Tshwane in Tsonga, Stad Tshwane Metropolitaanse Munisipaliteit in Afrikaans, and Mmasepala wa Toropokgolo ya Tshwane in Tswana and Northern Sotho. The 2022 census counted 4,040,315 residents, up from 2,921,488 at the 2011 census, 2,143,869 in 2001 and 1,792,851 in 1996, a rise of about 1.1 million people between 2011 and 2022.