Page 20 - (DK Eyewitness) Travel Guide - South Africa

18  INTRODUCING SOUTH AFRIC A
Z A M B I A Tete
Putting South Africa on Zambezi Karoi
the Map Victoria Lake Chinhoyi Bindura Morrumbala
Kariba
Falls
Livingstone
Harare
The southernmost country on the African continent, South Zambezi Kadoma
Africa is roughly five times the size of Britain. It covers an area ZIMBABWE
of 1,223,201 sq km (472,156 sq miles), and has a population of
around 55 million. The sovereign kingdom of Lesotho lies within Mutare
its bor ders. The Atlantic, which washes its western shores, and Okavango Gweru
Delta
the Indian Ocean, which laps the East Coast, meet at Cape Makgadikgadi Masvingo
Pans
Agulhas, Africa’s most southerly tip. To the north of South Africa Bulawayo Beira
lie the neighbouring states of Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Save
Swaziland and Mozambique. Lake Ngami Sowa Pan
BOTSW ANA Shashani Save
Serowe Limpopo Mabote
Okawa
Rock Windhoek Musina
Bay
MOZAMBIQUE
Walvis Bay
Limpopo LIMPOPO PROVINCE Limpopo
Conception Polokwane Inhambane
Bay
Fish
Meob Gaborone
Bay
N A M I B I A MPUMALANGA
Pretoria Xai-Xai
Mmabatho Mbombela
(Nelspruit)
Fish NORTH WEST Johannesburg Germiston Mbabane Maputo
Soweto
Keetmanshoop GAUTENG Lusutfu
Lüderitz Klerksdorp
SWAZILAND
Vaal Vaal
Dam Pongolapoort
Key Kroonstad Phongolo Dam Indian
Welkom
Motorway Bethlehem KWAZULU- Ocean
Lake
Major road Upington Vaal NATAL St Lucia
Minor road Kimberley FREE STATE Ladysmith
Orange Orange Bloemfontein
Main railway line Katse Tugela
Dam
International boundary Maseru Pietermaritzburg
Provincial boundary Grootvloer LESOTHO Durban
Verneuk Pan Amanzimtoti
NORTHERN CAPE De Aar Orange
S O U T H A F R I C A
Middelburg EASTERN Mthatha
CAPE
Fish
Atlantic Beaufort Cradock
West
Ocean St Helena Bay Somerset East King William’s Town
Saldanha Bay WESTERN Sundays East London
CAPE
Table Bay Oudtshoorn Grahamstown
Worcester
Cape Town
George Port
Simon’s Town Somerset Mossel Bay Elizabeth
False West St Sebastian
Bay Bay
Arniston
0 kilometres 200
0 miles 100
For keys to symbols see back flap
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