South African Cities – Are you looking for a complete list of South African Cities along with their provinces? Well, good luck with that. I spent the most part of my Saturday searching for a comprehensive list (which I didn’t find).
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Do you want to know what the longitude and latitude is of the city of Cape Town? What about Johannesburg perhaps? Soweto?
Did you know that South Africa has 3 capitals? Pretoria is the administrative capital of South Africa, Cape Town is the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein is the judicial capital.
Below is the product of my research, a downloadable list of all South African Cities along with South Africa provinces.
South African Cities – A Complete List
I have had to massage the data somewhat with doing some fancy SQL footwork. What I have ended up with is a list of SA Cities along with their provinces and Longitude and Latitude coordinates. You can download the files from the links below.
SA Cities MSSQL Database 7 Zip
Lastly, if you’re looking for some useful Web Services, consider WebserviceX.NET which I used to illustrate the concept of Obfuscation. Enjoy!
UPDATE – 19 September 2015
Thanks to Charles Crous that made me aware of a possible error that exists for the GPS coordinates of Tweespruit in the Free State. Google reports the coordinates as 29.1856° S, 27.0289° E and not as defined in the list.
South African Cities on GitHub: UPDATE – 3 June 2017
I have added the files to a GitHub repository. If you would like to add to the database, making it better, please grab it from GitHub and contribute.
Google Maps Geocoding API Address Validator – 17 July 2017
I have created a small C# project that uses the free* Google API to validate an address. Check it out on GitHub.
* Free – Limited to 2,500 free requests per day.
