Metropolitan municipality (Knowing South Africa).

The maps of the Southern Africa region and the South Africa map show the geography of the southern region of the African continent. The region stretches north to south from 22 degrees to 35 degrees latitude and west to east from 17 degrees to 33 degrees longitude.

Bordered in the north by Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, South Africa encompasses the independent mountain kingdoms of Lesotho and Swaziland. Its largest neighbours are the Atlantic and Indian oceans that meet at Cape Agulhas, the most southern tip of the African continent.
In South Africa, a metropolitan municipality or Category A municipality is a municipality which executes all the functions of local government for a city or conurbation. This is by contrast to areas which are primarily rural, where the local government is divided into district municipalities and local municipalities.

List of metropolitan municipalities:

• City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality (Cape Town)
• Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (East Rand)
• eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality (Durban)
• City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (Johannesburg)
• Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality (Port Elizabeth)
• City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality (Pretoria)

The following local municipalities will become metropolitan municipalities at the 2011 municipal election:

• Buffalo City Municipality (East London)
• Mangaung Municipality (Bloemfontein)
• Msunduzi Municipality (Pietermaritzburg)