The older Johannesburg suburbs still get described by region names nobody uses anymore

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What did Johannesburg look like before the current metro boundaries were drawn? Administrative regions usually outlive the governments that created them Why division boundaries survive long after the reason for them is gone The Cotton Belt moved west and the name stayed put Colonial empires redrew the cultural zones of whole continents and the seams still show today Medieval marchlands left a legacy in local dialects and land tenure A railway or a canal can create a region that outlives the line itself Place names preserve the language area that once covered a whole region The Rust Belt name stuck long after the mills closed Classic ethnographic regions were documented just as the groups inside them were changing

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