Sydenham
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Coordinates: 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
Established	1905
Area [1]
• Total	1.17 km2 (0.45 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[1]
• Total	3,368
• Density	2,900/km2 (7,500/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [1]
• Black African	29.3%
• Coloured	1.3%
• Indian/Asian	1.5%
• White	65.9%
• Other	2.0%
First languages (2011) [1]
• English	69.1%
• Zulu	6.9%
• Northern Sotho	5.3%
• Afrikaans	4.4%
• Other	14.3%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	2192

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

History

The suburb was surveyed for housing in 1905.^[2]: 162 The suburb's name comes from the name of the farm which originated sometime before the mid-1890s.^[3]: 304 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 2,000 m (6,600 ft).^[4]: 255