🇿🇦 South Africa 9 administrative divisions
9 first-level administrative divisions — states, provinces, regions or counties, depending on the country — and 3,483 cities and towns, each with latitude and longitude. Public domain, free to download, no API key.
The country
- ISO 3166-1
- ZA · ZAF · 710
- Capital
- Pretoria
- Continent
- Africa
- Currency
- ZAR — rand
- Calling code
- +27
- Internet domain
- .za
- Divisions
- 9
- Cities and towns
- 3,483
Divisions
The 9 divisions of South Africa
9 of them carry an ISO 3166-2 code. Counts are cities and towns inside each division.
| Division | ISO 3166-2 | Cities and towns | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gauteng | ZA-GP | 706 | 15,099,422 |
| KwaZulu-Natal | ZA-KZN | 614 | 12,423,907 |
| Limpopo | ZA-LP | 544 | 6,572,720 |
| Eastern Cape | ZA-EC | 392 | 7,230,204 |
| Western Cape | ZA-WC | 307 | 7,113,776 |
| Mpumalanga | ZA-MP | 281 | 5,143,324 |
| North West | ZA-NW | 226 | 3,804,548 |
| Free State | ZA-FS | 213 | 2,964,412 |
| Northern Cape | ZA-NC | 196 | 1,355,946 |
A further 4 places could not be matched to a
division and are listed separately in the API as
"unassigned": true.
Get it
Both files, in one request each
# every division of South Africa
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/regions/ZA.json
# the cities and towns of one division (id from the file above)
curl -s https://api.placedb.org/v1/cities/ZA/<id>.jsonNo key, no account, no rate limit. The endpoints · try it live.