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South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe; to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland; while Lesotho is an independent country wholly...
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Free State, South Africa
The Free State is a province of South Africa. The name is a popular contraction of the previous name the Orange Free State. Its capital is Bloemfontein which is also South Africa's judicial capital. On 9 June 1995 its name was changed from Orange...
Cape Town
Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: iKapa) is the second most populous city in South Africa, and the largest in land area, forming part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. It is the provincial capital of the Western Cape, as well...
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- 2,454.72 km² (947.773 mi² )
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Mafikeng
Mafikeng (previously Mafeking), "The City of Goodwill", is the capital of the North-West Province of South Africa. Located on South Africa's border with Botswana, it is 1,400 km (870 mi) northeast of Cape Town and 260 km (160 mi) west of...
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Limpopo River
The Limpopo River rises in central southern Africa, and flows generally eastwards to the Indian Ocean. It is around 1,750 kilometres (1,087 mi) long, with a drainage basin 415,000 square kilometres (160,200 sq mi) in size. Its mean annual discharge...
Table Mountain
Table Mountain is a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa, and is featured in the flag of Cape Town and other local government insignia. It is a significant tourist attraction, with many...
Mmabatho
Mmabatho (Setswana for "Mother of the People") is the former capital of the North-West Province of South Africa. In the apartheid era, it was the capital of the former "Bantustan" of Bophuthatswana. Following the end of apartheid in 1994,...
Johannesburg International Airport
OR Tambo International Airport (IATA: JNB, ICAO: FAJS) (ORTIA) is a large airport in Kempton Park, Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, South Africa, near the city of Johannesburg. It serves as the primary airport for domestic and international travel to/from South...
Krokodilpoort
Krokodilpoort is a town in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
Orange River
The Orange River (Afrikaans/Dutch: Oranjerivier), Gariep River, Groote River or Senqu River is the longest river in South Africa. It rises in the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho, flowing westwards through South Africa to the Atlantic Ocean. The...
Vaal River
The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa. The river has its source in the Drakensberg mountains in Mpumalanga, east of Johannesburg and about 30 km north of Clarens in the Free State (Incorrect - The only source is...
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (pronounced /kwɑːˌzuːluː nəˈtɑːl/, also referred to as KZN or Natal) is a province of South Africa. Prior to 1994 the territory now known as KwaZulu-Natal was made up of the province of Natal and all pieces of territory that made up...
Phuthaditjhaba
Phuthaditjhaba (formerly Witsieshoek) is a town in the Free State province of South Africa. The frequent snow on the Drakensberg mountain peaks surrounding the town led the San to call the region Qwa-Qwa (whiter than white). It was known as...
Tugela Falls
Tugela Falls is the world's second highest waterfall. The total drop in five free-leaping falls is 948 meters (3,110 feet). They are located in the Drakensberg (Dragon's Mountains) in the Royal Natal National Park in KwaZulu-Natal Province, Republic...
Cape Town International Airport
Cape Town International Airport (CTIA) (Afrikaans: Kaapstad Internasionale Lughawe) (IATA: CPT, ICAO: FACT) is an airport in Cape Town, South Africa. It is the second-largest airport in South Africa (after OR Tambo International Airport) and the...
Durban International Airport
Durban International Airport (IATA: DUR, ICAO: FADN), formerly Louis Botha Airport, is located in Durban, South Africa. The runway is shared with AFB Durban.
The airport is the smallest of South Africa's three declared international airport gateways...
East London Airport
East London Airport (IATA: ELS, ICAO: FAEL) is located in East London, South Africa.
East London's airport is a small but bustling one that plays an important role in the growing economy of the Eastern Cape.
Every day it welcomes between 20 and 30...
George Airport
George Airport (IATA: GRJ, ICAO: FAGG) is an airport located in George, South Africa. It was formerly known as P.W. Botha Airport, named after the state president who lived in this part of the country.
In 2004, the airport served 199,000 passengers,...
Port Elizabeth Airport
Port Elizabeth Airport (IATA: PLZ, ICAO: FAPE), formerly H. F. Verwoerd Airport, is an airport situated in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Cape, South Africa. The airport is owned and operated by the Airports Company South Africa which also operates nine...
Pilanesburg International Airport
Pilanesberg International Airport (IATA: NTY, ICAO: FAPN) is an airport located in Pilanesberg, North West Province, South Africa near Sun City. Its IATA Airport Code is NTY.
Bloemfontein Airport
Bloemfontein Airport (IATA: BFN, ICAO: FABL) is located in Bloemfontein, a city in the Free State province of South Africa. The runways are shared with AFB Bloemspruit.
In 2004, the airport served 225,636 passengers (+4.7% vs. '03). This airport,...
Kimberley Airport
Kimberley Airport (IATA: KIM, ICAO: FAKM) is an airport in Kimberley, South Africa.
Upington Airport
Upington Airport (IATA: UTN, ICAO: FAUP) is an airport located in Upington, Northern Cape, South Africa. At 4900 metres, runway 17/35 is one of the longest runways in the world. The high elevation of the airport, extremely high summer teperatures...
Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa. It covers 18,989 square kilometres (7,332 sq mi) and extends 350 kilometres (220 mi) from north to south and 60 kilometres (37 mi) from east to west.
To the west and south of the...
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- 18,989 km² (7331.7 mi² )
Gauteng
Gauteng (pronounced /ɡaʊtɛŋ/ or /xaʊtɛŋ/; () Sotho [xɑ́.ú.ˈtʼè.ŋ̀]) is a province of South Africa. It was formed from part of the old Transvaal province after South Africa's first all-race elections on 27 April 1994. It was initially named Pretoria...
Sandton
Sandton is a wealthy suburb of the City of Johannesburg, South Africa in the Gauteng Province. The name comes from the combination of two suburbs, Sandown and Bryanston, both of which were named after places in the United Kingdom. In 1969 Sandton...
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- 156 km² (60.2 mi² )
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East London
East London, sometimes referred to as Buffalo City, (Afrikaans: Oos-Londen, Xhosa: eMonti) is a city on the southeast coast of South Africa, situated at 32.97°S and 27.87°E in the Buffalo City Local Municipality in the Amatole District of the...
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Bhiso
Bhisho, formerly known as Bisho, the capital of the Eastern Cape Province in South Africa. The Provincial legislature and many other government departments are headquartered in the town. Bhisho lies just north of the former provincial capital King...
Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho. It was formed in 1994 out of the "independent" homelands of Transkei and Ciskei, as well as the eastern portion of the Cape Province. Landing place and home of the 1820 settlers....
Western Cape
The Western Cape is a province in the south west of South Africa. The capital is Cape Town. Prior to 1994, the region that now forms the Western Cape was part of the huge (and now defunct) Cape Province. Prior to the formation of the Union of South...
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Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga, (pronounced /uːmˈpuːməlɑːŋɡə/ ( listen) – name changed from Eastern Transvaal on 24 August 1995), is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, and Zulu. Mpumalanga lies...
Pietermaritzburg
Pietermaritzburg is the capital and second largest city of the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was founded in 1838. Its "purist" Zulu name is umGungundlovu, and this is the name used for the district authority. Pietermaritzburg is...
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- 649 km² (251 mi² )
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Limpopo
Limpopo (pronounced /lɪmˈpoʊpoʊ/) is the northernmost province of South Africa. The capital is Pietersburg, now renamed to Polokwane. The province was formed from the northern region of the Transvaal province in 1994, and initially named Northern...
Mossel Bay
Mossel Bay (Afrikaans: Mosselbaai) is a town with 150 000 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It lies on the southern coast of South Africa, east of the Cape of Good Hope and west of Knysna on the Indian Ocean coast and is part...
Free State
The Free State (Afrikaans: Vrystaat, Sotho: Foreistata; before 1995, the Orange Free State) is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free...
Northern Cape
The Northern Cape (Afrikaans: Noord-Kaap) is the largest and most sparsely populated of the provinces of South Africa, created in 1994 when the Cape Province was split up. Its capital is Kimberley. It includes the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park,...
North West
North West is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Mafikeng. The province is located to the west of the major population centre of Gauteng.
North West was created after the end of Apartheid in 1994, and includes parts of the former Transvaal...
Paarl
Paarl (derived from Parel, meaning Pearl in Dutch) is a town with 191,013 inhabitants in the Western Cape province of South Africa. Its the third oldest European settlement in the Republic of South Africa (after Cape Town and Stellenbosch) and the...
Stellenbosch
Stellenbosch (pronounced /ˈstɛlənbɒs/) is a town in the Western Cape province of South Africa, situated about 50 kilometers (30 miles) east of Cape Town, along the banks of the Eerste Rivier. Its the second oldest European settlement in the province...
Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
The Victoria & Alfred Waterfront in the historic heart of Cape Town's working harbour is South Africa's most-visited destination, having the highest rate of foreign tourists of any attraction in the country. Situated between Robben Island and Table...
Eshowe
Eshowe, is the oldest town of European settlement in Zululand. Eshowe's name is said to be inspired by the sound of wind blowing through the more than 4 km² of the indigenous Dhlinza Forest, the most important and striking feature of the town....
Ingwavuma
Ingwavuma is a town in the Umkhanyakude District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. It is unclear where the name of the town came from; one theory is that is was named after the Ngwavuma River while another is that there was a...
Nelspruit
Nelspruit is a city of 221,474 people (2000) situated in northeastern South Africa. It is the capital of the Mpumalanga province (formerly Eastern Transvaal). Located on the Crocodile River (known as the Krokodil in Afrikaans), Nelspruit lies about...
Maputo River
The Maputo River (Portuguese Rio Maputo), also called Great Usutu River, Lusutfu River or Suthu River, is a river in South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique. The name Suthu refers to Basotho people who lived near the source of the river, who were...
Ladysmith
Ladysmith (2001: pop. 225,452) is a town in the uThukela District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is 230 kilometres (140 mi) north-west of Durban and 365 kilometres (227 mi) south of Johannesburg. Important industries in the area include food...
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Tugela River
The Tugela River (also known as Thukela) is the largest river in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The river originates in the Drakensberg Mountains, Mont-aux-Sources, (itself the source of tributaries of two other major South African rivers,...
Potchefstroom
Potchefstroom is an academic city hosting the Potchefstroom Campus of the North-West University (previously known as Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education), situated on the banks of the Mooirivier (Afrikaans for 'pretty (or...
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- 2,573 km² (993.4 mi² )
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Kathu
Kathu is a town in South Africa, and the iron ore capital of the Northern Cape province. Its name means "town under the trees", after the Camel Thorn forest it is situated in.
The town and the accompanying industrial area of Sishen came into being...
Cederberg
The Cederberg mountains and nature reserve are located near Clanwilliam, approximately 300 km north of Cape Town, South Africa at about 32°30′S 19°0′E / 32.5°S 19°E / -32.5; 19. The mountain range is named after the endangered Clanwilliam Cedar ...
Adelaide
Adelaide is a town and area in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Population 12,000 (2001). Adelaide is situated near the Great Winterberg Mountain range.Its origins date back to 1834 when a British officer named Captain Armstrong...
Plettenberg Bay
Plettenberg Bay, nicknamed Plet or Plett, is a town with 19,565 inhabitants in the Western Cape Province of South Africa. It was originally named Bahia Formosa (beautiful bay) by early Portuguese explorers and lies on South Africa's Garden Route 210...
Bapsfontein
Bapsfontein is a town in Ekhuruleni, South Africa, and falls into the Elandsvlei Conservancy area.The area is renown for its variety of Birds as it is directly on the International Bird Route. The surrounding areas are made up of pristine grasslands...
Nongoma
Nongoma is a town in Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is the seat of the Nongoma Local Municipality. It is situated 300km north of Durban and 56km from Ulundi at 27°53′55″S 31°38′53″E / 27.89861°S 31.64806°E / -27.89861; 31.64806; it is...
Babanango
Babanango is the name of a hill, a stream and a settlement situated in Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. There are many versions of where the name Babanango originates from, the common accepted origin comes from the Zulu words 'baba nango'. The...
Dundee
The coal mining town of Dundee is situated in a valley of the Biggarsberg mountains in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (28°10′S 30°14′E / 28.167°S 30.233°E / -28.167; 30.233). It is part of the Endumeni Local Municipality, Umzinyathi District. It is...
Empangeni
Empangeni is a town in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. It is approximately 160 kilometres north of Durban, situated in hilly country side of the Uthungulu District, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It overlooks a flat coastal plain and the major...
Estcourt
Estcourt is a town in the uThukela District of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. The main economic activity is farming with large bacon and processed food factories situated around the town. The N3 freeway passes close to the town, linking it to...
Glencoe
Glencoe is situated in the Umzinyathi District District of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
The main economic activity in the area is coal mining while sheep and cattle ranching are also practiced.
With coal discovered at Dundee not even 8 km away an...
Kokstad
Kokstad is a town in the Sisonke District of KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa. Kokstad is named after the Griqua chief Adam Kok III who settled here in 1863. Stad is the Dutch and Afrikaans word for city.
The town is built on the outer slopes of...
Klerksdorp
Klerksdorp is a city and administrative district located in the North West Province (formerly Western Transvaal), South Africa.
The city was founded in 1837 when the Voortrekkers settled on the banks of the Schoonspruit ("Clear stream"), which flows...
Brits
Brits is a large town and district situated in a fertile, citrus-producing area that is irrigated by the waters of the Hartbeespoort Dam in North West Province of South Africa. It is close to the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality in Gauteng,...
