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Can you locate all 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria?
Can you locate all 10 regions of Cameroon?
Can you locate all nine provinces of South Africa?
Can you locate all 47 counties of Kenya?
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South Africa is cut into 52 districts and metropolitan municipalities, the tier between the nine provinces and the local municipalities. It is the tier a municipal election, a load shedding schedule or a drought declaration names, and the smallest one that fits on a single screen. Learn the provinces first, then this map for when a round puts you somewhere the province alone does not settle.
Forty-four of the 52 are district municipalities, each a ring of local municipalities that share services, and eight are metropolitan municipalities, single cities that do the job of a district alone: Cape Town, Johannesburg, Tshwane, Ekurhuleni, eThekwini, Nelson Mandela Bay, Buffalo City and Mangaung. The metros are small and the districts around them are not, so the map is a few large Karoo shapes in the west and a crowd in the east, with Gauteng packed into the middle.
The sizes are lopsided. Namakwa and the Karoo districts of the Northern Cape are larger than some provinces, while Gauteng holds five districts in an area smaller than any of them. Names change as well: the old Cacadu is now Sarah Baartman, Uthungulu is King Cetshwayo and Sisonke is Harry Gwala, and the map uses the current names.
The groups are the nine provinces, so the game lets you drill one at a time, and each province answers under the same name in South Africa Provinces.
Namakwa is the whole north west corner of the Northern Cape, from the Atlantic to the Orange River, and larger than Gauteng several times over. Dry scrub, quiver trees and wide silence are the clue.
Johannesburg is a metropolitan municipality, so it is a small shape pinned between Tshwane to the north, Ekurhuleni to the east and the West Rand to the west. Mine dumps and toll gantries give it away.
Waterberg is the largest district in Limpopo, a plateau of bushveld, game farms and platinum mines that reaches to the Botswana border.
52: 44 district municipalities and eight metropolitan municipalities. Together they cover the whole country, with the local municipalities beneath them.
A city that is its own district. The eight are Cape Town, Johannesburg, Tshwane, Ekurhuleni, eThekwini, Nelson Mandela Bay, Buffalo City and Mangaung, and they run the services a district would run for a ring of towns.
KwaZulu-Natal, with eleven including the eThekwini metro. The Eastern Cape follows with eight, and the Western Cape has six.
Several were renamed: Cacadu became Sarah Baartman, Uthungulu became King Cetshwayo and Sisonke became Harry Gwala. The game uses the current names.
The same country in other cuts: South Africa Provinces and South Africa Dialing Codes.
