List of cities and towns in KwaZulu-Natal
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Amajuba

  • Charlestown
    Charlestown, KwaZulu-Natal
    Charlestown is a small town situated at the top of Laing's Nek pass in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa between Newcastle and Volksrust. It started out as an important railway station and customs post between Natal and Transvaal in 1891 until the Union of South Africa came into being in 1910, and...

  • Dannhauser
  • Hattingspruit
  • Madadeni
  • Newcastle
  • Utrecht

eThekwini

  • Amanzimtoti
  • Cato Ridge
  • Doonside
    Doonside, KwaZulu-Natal
    Doonside is a small coastal resort on the banks of the Little Manzimtoti River in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is now part of eThekwini The name Doonside originated when a railway siding was built close to a house named Lorna Doone, after the heroine of the famous novel by Richard Doddridge...

  • Drummond
    Drummond
    Drummond may refer to:Places in Canada:* Drummond , a Québec federal riding* Drummond , a provincial electoral district in Quebec...

  • Durban
    Durban
    Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...

  • ekuPhakameni
  • Hillcrest
    Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal
    Hillcrest is a settlement within eThekwini in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and forms a part of the Upper Highway Area.-History:Hillcrest was formerly a sleepy village, governed by its own Town Board on the outskirts of Durban that has now become a booming suburb incorporated into the eThekwini...

  • Illovo Beach
  • Inanda
    Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal
    Inanda is a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa that is situated 24 km inland from Durban and now forms part of eThekwini, the Greater Durban Metropolitan Municipality...

  • Isipingo Beach
  • Karridene
  • Kingsburgh
    Kingsburgh, KwaZulu-Natal
    Kingsburgh is a resort town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is a part of eThekwini....

  • Kloof
  • KwaMashu
    KwaMashu
    KwaMashu is a township twenty miles north of Durban, South Africa with very high levels of poverty and crime.-History:The township was formed by the apartheid state to house the mass resettlement of Africans that were living in Cato Manor during 1958-65. It is the largest of 3 townships in the area...

  • La-Lucia
    La-Lucia
    La Lucia is a suburb of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, located to the north of the city. It was named after Lucia Michel. She and her husband Albert Michel founded the sugar cane farm La Lucia....

  • La Mercy
    La Mercy
    La Mercy is a town north of Durban, South Africa, and is a part of the eThekwini municipality. It is the location of Durban's King Shaka International Airport....

  • Mount Edgecombe
  • New Germany
  • Pinetown
    Pinetown
    Pinetown is a small city just inland from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Pinetown is situated 16 km west of Durban at an elevation of 1,000 to 1,300 feet . It was established in 1850 around the Wayside Hotel, itself built the year before along the main wagon route between Durban and...

  • Queensburgh
  • Tongaat
  • Umbogintwini
    Umbogintwini
    Umbogintwini is a town near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Its post office received the corrected name in 1997.-References:...

  • Umdloti
  • Umgababa
  • Umhlanga Rocks
  • Verulam
    Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal
    Verulam is a town 27 kilometres north of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and is now part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Area.-History:In 1850 a party of 400 methodists settled here and formed the town. The town was then named after the Earl of Verulam, patron of the Brits who settled...

  • Warner Beach
  • Westville
    Westville, KwaZulu-Natal
    Westville is an area near Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, which is situated 20 km inland from the Durban city centre. Formerly an independent municipality governed by a Town Council, it now forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, which also includes Durban...

  • Winkelspruit
  • Phoenix
  • Chatsworth
    Chatsworth, Durban
    Chatsworth, is a large Indian township in Durban, South Africa, which was created as a result of the Apartheid Government's Group Areas Act. This area, created in the late 1960s and early 1970s, was populated by those removed from their homes in mixed-race and whites-only areas...

  • Wentworth
    Wentworth, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
    Wentworth, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal is a township of Durban, South Africa on the east coast of KwaZulu-Natal. It is located completely inside an area known as the South Durban Basin...


Sisonke

  • Bulwer
  • Cedarville
    Cedarville, KwaZulu-Natal
    Cedarville is a town in the Sisonke District Municipality of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa....

  • Franklin
  • Himeville
  • Ixopo
  • Kokstad
  • Matatiele
  • Swartberg
    Swartberg
    The Swartberg mountains make up a mountain range that runs roughly east-west along the northern edge of the semi-arid Little Karoo in the Western Cape province of South Africa...

  • Umzimkulu
  • Underberg
    Underberg, KwaZulu-Natal
    Underberg is an administrative town in a dairy and cattle farming community in the Mzimkulu River valley of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is situated at the foot of the 1,904 m Hlogoma Peak in the foothills of the southern Drakensberg, KwaZulu-Natal. Underberg began in 1917 when the railway from...


Ugu

  • Harding
    Harding, KwaZulu-Natal
    Harding is a town situated in the Mzimkulwana River valley, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.Harding was established as a military outpost following the United Kingdom's annexation of East Griqualand in 1874 and was named after the first chief of justice for Natal, Sir Walter Harding.Timber and dairy...

  • Hibberdene
  • Ifafa Beach
  • Kelso
    Kelso, KwaZulu-Natal
    Kelso, Kwazulu-Natal is located in the Umdoni Coast region of South Africa facing the Indian Ocean. Kelso is located 65 kilometers south of Durban, the largest city in Kwazulu-Natal.-History:...

  • Margate
  • Palm Beach
  • Park Rynie
  • Pennington
    Pennington, KwaZulu-Natal
    Pennington is a small coastal town on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Apart from a large sugarcane and dairy farming, it also hosts scores of holiday makers who flock to the seaside during the December holidays....

  • Port Edward
    Port Edward, KwaZulu-Natal
    Port Edward is a small resort town situated on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, right on the Eastern Cape Province border.Port Edward is a tourist resort for seasonal visitors from more affluent regions of South Africa...

  • Port Shepstone
  • Ramsgate
    Ramsgate, KwaZulu-Natal
    Ramsgate is a village on the south coast of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa,a land rich in exotic combinations of landscapes, people, history and culture. Ramsgate is located on the mouth of a river known by the Zulu name Bilanhlolo for the bubbles caused by strong currents making it look like the...

  • Scottburgh
  • Sezela
  • Shelly Beach
    Shelly Beach
    Shelly Beach can refer to:* Shelly Beach, New South Wales, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia* Shelly Beach , in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia* Shelly Beach , in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

  • Southbroom
  • St Michael's-on-Sea
  • Umkomaas
  • Umtentweni
  • Umzinto
  • Umzumbe
  • Uvongo
  • Widenham

uMgungundlovu

  • Balgowan
  • Boston
    Boston, KwaZulu-Natal
    Boston is a small town situated in the Mkhomazi and Elands River valley of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa....

  • Byrne
    Byrne
    Byrne meaning 'raven', is derived from the Irish name Ó Broin, and is the seventh most common surname in Ireland today.-History:...

  • Dargle
  • Hilton
    Hilton, KwaZulu-Natal
    Hilton is a small town that lies on the brow of the escarpment above Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. In 1872 the Reverend WO Newnham opened Hilton College here, one of South Africa's leading private schools....

  • Howick
  • Impendile
  • Merrivale
  • Mooi River
  • Epumalanga
  • New Hanover
    New Hanover, KwaZulu-Natal
    New Hanover is a small town in the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa which was established in the 1850s by German cotton planter families. Today this area's principal economy is the sugarcane industry, while the farming of fruits, grains and timber also feature prominently....

  • Nottingham Road
  • Pietermaritzburg
    Pietermaritzburg
    Pietermaritzburg is the capital and second largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1838, and is currently governed by the Msunduzi Local Municipality. Its "purist" Zulu name is umGungundlovu, and this is the name used for the district municipality...

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  • Richmond
    Richmond, KwaZulu-Natal
    Richmond is a town situated on the banks of the upper Illovo River in the midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, approximately 38 km south-west of Pietermaritzburg. Timber, sugarcane, poultry, citrus fruit and dairy goods are produced here...

  • Wartburg
    Wartburg, KwaZulu-Natal
    Wartburg is a small town located approximately to the north-east of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, and is located in the Umgungundlovu District Municipality. It is situated in an agricultural area, dominated by sugar cane fields and timber plantations...

  • York
  • Noodsberg
  • Dalton
    Dalton, KwaZulu-Natal
    Dalton is a small town in KwaZulu-Natal. It is mainly a sugarcane growing region with the Union Co-Op mill and the Illovo Noodsberg mill nearby.- Surrounding Towns :...

  • Harburg
    Harburg
    Harburg is a district in Lower Saxony, Germany. It takes its name from the town of Harburg upon Elbe, which used to be the capital of the district but is now part of Hamburg...


UMkhanyakude

  • Hluhluwe
  • Ingwavuma
  • Mkuze
  • Mtubatuba
  • St Lucia
    Greater St. Lucia Wetland Park
    iSimangaliso Wetland Park is situated on the east coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa about 275 kilometres north of Durban. It is South Africa's third-largest protected area, spanning 280 km of coastline, from the Mozambican border in the north to Mapelane south of the St Lucia estuary, and...

  • Ubombo

Umzinyathi

  • Dundee
  • Glencoe
  • Greytown
    Greytown, KwaZulu-Natal
    Greytown is a town situated on the banks of a tributary of the Umvoti River in a richly fertile timber-producing area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.-History:...

  • Kranskop
  • Muden
  • Pomeroy
  • Wasbank

uThukela

  • Bergville
  • Colenso
    Colenso, KwaZulu-Natal
    Colenso is a town in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It is located on the southern bank of the Tugela River. The original settlement was contained within a loop on the river, but it subsequently expanded southwards and eastwards...

  • Elandslaagte
  • Estcourt
  • Ladysmith
  • Weenen
  • Winterton
    Winterton, KwaZulu-Natal
    Winterton is a small town situated on the banks of the Tugela River in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. It was founded in 1905 as Springfield when the Natal government built a weir across the Little Tugela River. The town later changed its name to Winterton...


Uthungulu

  • Babanango
  • Empangeni
  • Eshowe
  • Mandini
  • Melmoth
    Melmoth, KwaZulu-Natal
    Melmoth is a small town situated in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The town was established in the Mthonjaneni district after the annexation of Zululand by the United Kingdom in 1887 and was named after Sir Melmoth Osborn...

  • Mtunzini
  • Richards Bay

Zululand

  • Louwsburg
  • Mahlabatini
  • Nongoma
  • Paulpietersburg
  • Pongola
    Pongola, KwaZulu-Natal
    Pongola is a small town situated in northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, on the Pongola River, only 10 kilometres from the Swaziland border. It has 50 km² of sugarcane and subtropical fruit plantations surrounding it. During the Depression years of the 1930s, drastic irrigation systems were...

  • Ulundi
  • Vryheid
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