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Biggest Cities in Southern Africa

Southern Africa includes Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. This is the definition of Southern Africa as defined by the African Union
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Last updated: July 20, 2021
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First submittedMay 14, 2016
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Population
Country
City
9,167,045
South Africa
Johannesburg
6,759,313
Angola
Luanda
4,004,793
South Africa
Cape Town
3,661,911
South Africa
Durban
2,717,437
Mozambique
Maputo
2,437,000
South Africa
Pretoria
1,747,152
Zambia
Lusaka
1,485,231
Zimbabwe
Harare
Population
Country
City
1,263,051
South Africa
Port Elizabeth
989,318
Malawi
Lilongwe
810,528
South Africa
East London
800,264
Malawi
Blantyre
759,693
South Africa
Bloemfontein
679,766
South Africa
Pietermaritzburg
653,337
Zimbabwe
Bulawayo
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Level 73
May 14, 2016
Tell me if ive made any mistakes :)
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Level 56
Jun 1, 2016
You've given a lot of townships that are already part of bigger cities. Like Khayelitsha and Mitchells Plain are part of Cape Town and Mamelodi is part of Pretoria. Also I know Bloemfontein should be on the list.

I'm wondering also what your definition of Southern Africa is, like if the DRC (Congo) is part then Kinshasa has to be in the list. Also I think Maputo, Harare and Buluwayo might have a lot of people and should be on the list, I mean I have been in Windhoek, Harare and Maputo and Windhoek is really tiny.

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Level 69
Jul 20, 2021
I agree. You need to first decide on what your definition of a "city" is. Do you use municipal boundaries (in which case Ekurhuleni will definitely be there) or do you rely on more informal definitions (eg Germiston is a city within Ekurhuleni). You also need to decide whether townships are separate towns or part of their cities. SOWETO is part of Johannesburg, but on its own it would be a city with over a million residents.

A lot of neighbouring countries have cities bigger than Windhoek.

Also decide what constitutes "Southern Africa", some people say it includes everything in SADC, some people say everything south of the Zambezi / Cunene line which excludes parts of Mozambique, yet others say SACU plus Zimbabwe and Mozambique.

Its a good idea for a quiz, but needs a lot of work and some directions at the beginning of the quiz setting out your definitions.

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Level 73
Jul 21, 2021
updated :)
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Level 77
Jul 20, 2021
Good quiz; thank you.