| Cyrildene | |
| Pushpin Map: | South Africa Gauteng#South Africa |
| Coordinates: | -26.173°N 28.101°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | South Africa |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Gauteng |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Type3: | Municipality |
| Subdivision Name3: | City of Johannesburg |
| Subdivision Type4: | Main Place |
| Subdivision Name4: | Johannesburg |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | 1938 |
| Leader Title: | Councillor |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Km2: | 1.20 |
| Population Total: | 3417 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Racial makeup (2011) |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Black African |
| Demographics1 Info1: | 26.5% |
| Demographics1 Title2: | Coloured |
| Demographics1 Info2: | 3.0% |
| Demographics1 Title3: | Indian/Asian |
| Demographics1 Info3: | 33.9% |
| Demographics1 Title4: | White |
| Demographics1 Info4: | 31.1% |
| Demographics1 Title5: | Other |
| Demographics1 Info5: | 5.5% |
| Demographics Type2: | First languages (2011) |
| Demographics2 Title1: | English |
| Demographics2 Info1: | 55.8% |
| Demographics2 Title2: | Zulu |
| Demographics2 Info2: | 3.7% |
| Demographics2 Title3: | Afrikaans |
| Demographics2 Info3: | 3.4% |
| Demographics2 Title4: | Northern Sotho |
| Demographics2 Info4: | 2.1% |
| Demographics2 Title5: | Other |
| Demographics2 Info5: | 35.0% |
| Timezone1: | SAST |
| Utc Offset1: | +2 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code (street) |
| Postal Code: | 2198 |
| Postal2 Code Type: | PO box |
| Area Code Type: | Area code |
Cyrildene is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, predominantly home to Chinese people. The area is found east of the Johannesburg CBD and is surrounded by the suburbs of Linksfield, Observatory and Bruma. It is noted for a new Chinatown that exists on Derrick Avenue. This new Chinatown is now considered as the main Chinatown in Johannesburg, replacing the declining Chinatown on Commissioner Street in the inner-city of Johannesburg. It is located in Region F of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
The suburb is situated on part of an old Witwatersrand farm called Doornfontein.[2] It would be proclaimed as suburb on 18 May 1938 and was named after the land developer's son, Cyril Cooper.[2]
Up until approximately 2000 Cyrildene was a predominantly Jewish neighborhood. Unlike the old and now largely abandoned Chinatown in Newtown, which was largely made up of second or third generation South African Chinese, the new inhabitants of the Chinatown in Cyrildene are overwhelmingly first generation Chinese immigrants from mainland China.[3] The Chinatown has a paifang (arch).