List of places in South Africa named after people information

There are many places in South Africa named after people. Albertinia – Johannes Rudolph Albertyn Athlone – Alexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone Beaufort...

number of places named after famous people. For more on the general etymology of place names see toponymy. For other lists of eponyms (names derived...

This is a list of foods and dishes named after people. Poularde Adelina Patti – named for 19th-century opera singer Adelina Patti. Woodcock salmis Agnès...

a list of countries and dependent territories named after people. List of country name etymologies List of country subdivisions named after people Porras...

There are a number of places in Mexico named after famous people. Adolfo López Mateos (Aguascalientes) – Adolfo López Mateos Calvillo – José Calvillo...

This is a list of awards that are named after people. Contents:  Top A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z When the Copa del Rey was established...

following drinks were named after places. Americano, diluted espresso, popularly believed to be after the habit of American soldiers in Italy in WW II. Coffee...

locations in South Africa have been renamed. The following article covers the name changes in South Africa by province since the 1994 South African general...

of foods named after places have been compiled by writers, sometimes on travel websites or food-oriented websites, as well as in books. Since all of these...

is a list of places which are named or renamed after Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known by his alias Lenin. Some or all of the locations in former...

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA or R.S.A.), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres...

The South West Africa People's Organisation (/ˈswɑːpoʊ/, SWAPO; Afrikaans: Suidwes-Afrikaanse Volks Organisasie, SWAVO; German: Südwestafrikanische Volksorganisation...

more people, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. However, South Africa uses...

This is a list of places named after Horatio Nelson (Lord Nelson) (1758-1805), the British admiral. Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada Nelson, New Zealand...

This is a list of islands known to be named after individual people. It details the name of the island, its location and eponym. Former: Isla de Apodaca...

Southern African ethnic group descended from predominantly Dutch settlers first arriving at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652. Until 1994, they dominated South Africa's...

elections will be held in South Africa on 29 May 2024 to elect a new National Assembly as well as the provincial legislature in each of the nine provinces...

Many people of European heritage in South Africa are descended from Huguenots. Most of these originally settled in the Cape Colony, but were absorbed...

Africa is the world's second largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent...

Many places which were once in the former British Empire were named after the British monarch who reigned over it for the greater part of its most dominant...

indigenous peoples of Southern Africa who traditionally speak non-Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen (formerly "Hottentots") and the Sān peoples (also...

number of places in the U.S were named after places in England largely as a result of English settlers and explorers of the Thirteen Colonies. Some names were...

time named Ventura after the then-governor Jesse Ventura (whose ring name was in turn named after the city of Ventura, California) to draw attention in avoiding...

system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was...

independence in 1968. After independence, many Spanish-named cities and places in Equatorial Guinea were changed to more African names, the most obvious...