Interactive map of South Africa, its provinces and its major cities
Find your way around our country with
interactive and detailed maps of South Africa and its provinces, incuding detailed streetmaps of
its major cities. Learn more about the geography of South Africa which comprises three main
The interior Highveld Plateau,
The region between the coast and the Plateau,
The demarcation between these two,
The last one is called the Great Escarpment, a pronounced steep and mountainous
feature at the periphery of the Highveld.
In the north-east of the country in the Mpumalanga province, at the edge of the
Highveld and its vast open plains, the Escarpment forms a large and steep drop in altitude to what
is known as the Lowveld. It is there where one finds the characteristic African bushveld with its
The map of Southern Africa and South Africa below illustrates the topography of
the southern region of the African continent, extending west to east from 33 to 17 degrees longitude
and north to south from 35 to 22 degrees latitude.
It gives you a fantastic view of the major topographic features of South Africa.
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Interactive map showing view from space of the southern tip of Africa
With its neighbors Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Namibia at its northern
borders, South Africa completely surrounds the autonomous mountain kingdoms of Swaziland and
Lesotho. The rest of its borderline is formed by the Indian and Atlantic oceans, which come together
at the most southern tip of South Africa and the African continent at Cape Agulhas.