Riviera is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.

The suburb is situated on part of an old Witwatersrand farm called Braamfontein.

[2] It would be proclaimed as a suburb on 31 July 1903 as is named after the French or Italian Riviera.

[2] This Johannesburg-related article is a stub.