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South Africa
South Africa's topography is characterized by a high central plateau, known as the Highveld, which lies at elevations between 1,200 and 1,800 meters (3,937 to 5,906 feet) above sea level. This plateau is encircled by the Great Escarpment, a prominent mountainous feature that includes the Drakensberg Mountains,…
Average elevation: 221 m

Johannesburg
South Africa > Gauteng > City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality
Johannesburg is located in the eastern plateau area of South Africa known as the Highveld, at an elevation of 1,753 metres (5,751 ft). The former Central Business District is located on the southern side of the prominent ridge called the Witwatersrand (English: White Water's Ridge) and the terrain falls to the…
Average elevation: 1,615 m

Cape Town
South Africa > Western Cape > City of Cape Town
The Cape Peninsula is 52 km long from Mouille Point in the north to Cape Point in the south, with an area of about 470 km2, and it displays more topographical variety than other similar sized areas in southern Africa, and consequently spectacular scenery. There are diverse low-nutrient soils, large rocky…
Average elevation: 53 m

Stellenbosch
South Africa > Western Cape > Cape Winelands District Municipality > Stellenbosch Local Municipality
Stellenbosch is 53 km (33 mi) east of Cape Town via National Route N1. Stellenbosch is in a hilly region of the Cape Winelands, and is sheltered in a valley at an average elevation of 136 m (446 ft), flanked on the west by Papegaaiberg (Afrikaans: Parrot Mountain), which is actually a hill. To the south is…
Average elevation: 287 m

Gauteng
Gauteng's southern border is the Vaal River, which separates it from the Free State. It also borders on North West to the west, Limpopo to the north, and Mpumalanga to the east. Gauteng is the only landlocked province of South Africa without a foreign border. Most of Gauteng is on the Highveld, a high-altitude…
Average elevation: 1,405 m

Pretoria
South Africa > Gauteng > City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality
Pretoria is situated approximately 55 km (34 mi) north-northeast of Johannesburg in the northeast of South Africa, in a transitional belt between the plateau of the Highveld to the south and the lower-lying Bushveld to the north. It lies at an altitude of about 1,339 m (4,393 ft) above sea level, in a warm,…
Average elevation: 1,363 m

Brunei
Average elevation: 100 m

Mandeni Local Municipality
South Africa > KwaZulu-Natal > iLembe District Municipality
Average elevation: 121 m

Vaal Dam
South Africa > Free State > Fezile Dabi District Municipality > Metsimaholo Local Municipality > Deneysville
Average elevation: 1,481 m

Bloemfontein
South Africa > Free State > Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality
Situated at an elevation of 1,395 m (4,577 ft) above sea level, the city is home to approximately 520,000 residents and forms part of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality which has a population of 747,431. It was one of the host cities for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Average elevation: 1,374 m

Pietermaritzburg
South Africa > KwaZulu-Natal > uMgungundlovu District Municipality
Average elevation: 853 m

Centurion
South Africa > Gauteng > City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality
Average elevation: 1,451 m

KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal has a varied yet verdant climate thanks to diverse, complex topography. Generally, the coast is subtropical with inland regions becoming progressively colder. Durban on the south coast has an annual rainfall of 1009 mm, with daytime maxima peaking from January to March at 28 °C (82 °F) with a…
Average elevation: 777 m

Table Mountain
South Africa > Western Cape > City of Cape Town > Cape Town
Table Mountain is at the northern end of a sandstone mountain range that forms the spine of the Cape Peninsula that terminates approximately 50 kilometres (30 mi) to the south at the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point. Immediately to the south of Table Mountain is a rugged "plateau" at a somewhat lower elevation…
Average elevation: 583 m

Western Cape
The province is topographically exceptionally diverse. Most of the province falls within the Cape Fold Belt, a set of nearly parallel ranges of sandstone folded mountains of Cambrian-Ordovician age (the age of the rocks is from 510 to about 330 million years ago; their folding into mountains occurred about 350…
Average elevation: 581 m

Kou-Kamma Local Municipality
South Africa > Eastern Cape > Sarah Baartman District Municipality
Average elevation: 415 m

Thaba Chweu Local Municipality
South Africa > Mpumalanga > Ehlanzeni District Municipality
Average elevation: 1,207 m

Loch Errochty
United Kingdom > Scotland > Perth and Kinross
Loch Errochty is a man made freshwater loch situated within the Perth and Kinross council area at the edge of the Scottish Highlands near the Highland Boundary Fault where the topography changes to lowland.
Average elevation: 457 m

Durbanville
South Africa > Western Cape > City of Cape Town
Durbanville is situated in the northern suburbs of Cape Town, approximately 28 kilometres (17.4 mi) north-east of the city, bordered by Bellville to the south, Brackenfell to the south-east and Kraaifontein to the east. It lies at an altitude of between 100 m (328 ft) to 240 m (787 ft), in the vast rolling…
Average elevation: 157 m

Drakensberg
The Drakensberg (Zulu: uKhahlamba, Sotho: Maloti, Afrikaans: Drakensberge) is the eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, which encloses the central Southern African plateau. The Great Escarpment reaches its greatest elevation – 2,000 to 3,482 metres (6,562 to 11,424 feet) within the border region of South…
Average elevation: 3,286 m

Randburg
South Africa > Gauteng > City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality
Average elevation: 1,567 m

Mohlesi (Umkomass)
South Africa > KwaZulu-Natal > uMgungundlovu District Municipality > Impendle Local Municipality
Average elevation: 3,113 m

Las Vegas
United States > Nevada > Clark County
In 1829, Mexican trader and explorer Antonio Armijo led a group consisting of 60 men and 100 mules along the Old Spanish Trail from modern day New Mexico to California. Along the way, the group stopped in what would become Las Vegas and noted its natural water sources, now referred to as the Las Vegas Springs,…
Average elevation: 767 m

Pigeon Valley
South Africa > KwaZulu-Natal > eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality > Durban
Average elevation: 69 m

George
South Africa > Western Cape > Garden Route District Municipality > George Local Municipality
Average elevation: 244 m

Canberra
The area chosen for the capital had been inhabited by Indigenous Australians for up to 21,000 years, with the principal group being the Ngunnawal people. European settlement commenced in the first half of the 19th century, as evidenced by surviving landmarks such as St John's Anglican Church and Blundells…
Average elevation: 638 m

Kamieskroon
South Africa > Northern Cape > Namakwa District Municipality > Kamiesberg Local Municipality
Kamieskroon is a small town in the Kamiesberg Local Municipality, lying in the foothills of the Kamiesberge at an elevation of approximately 800 m (2 600 ft). The town is more or less in the centre of Namaqualand, about 70 km (43 mi) to the south of Springbok, Northern Cape, South Africa. It is known mainly…
Average elevation: 789 m

Mahikeng
South Africa > North West > Ngaka Modiri Molema District Municipality
Close to South Africa's border with Botswana, Mafikeng is 1,400 km (870 mi) northeast of Cape Town and 260 km (160 mi) west of Johannesburg. In 2001 it had a population of 49,300. In 2007 Mafikeng was reported to have a population of 250,000, of which the CBD constituted between 69,000 and 75,000. It is built…
Average elevation: 1,321 m

Great Kei Local Municipality
South Africa > Eastern Cape > Amathole District Municipality
Average elevation: 295 m

Hartbeespoort Dam
South Africa > North West > Bojanala Platinum District Municipality > Madibeng Local Municipality > Kosmos
Average elevation: 1,254 m

East London
South Africa > Eastern Cape > Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality
Average elevation: 72 m

Gqeberha
South Africa > Eastern Cape > Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality
Average elevation: 37 m

Steve Tshwete Ward 11
South Africa > Mpumalanga > Nkangala > Steve Tshwete Local Municipality
Average elevation: 1,520 m

Steelpoort
South Africa > Limpopo > Sekhukhune District Municipality > Greater Tubatse Local Municipality
Average elevation: 854 m

Tembisa
South Africa > Gauteng > City of Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality
Average elevation: 1,594 m

Bloemhof Dam
South Africa > Free State > Lejweleputswa District Municipality > Tswelopele Local Municipality
Average elevation: 1,251 m

Midrand
South Africa > Gauteng > City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality
Average elevation: 1,542 m

Manyeleti
South Africa > Mpumalanga > Ehlanzeni District Municipality > Bushbuckridge
Average elevation: 376 m

Long Beach
United States > California > Los Angeles County
Willow Springs Park was founded as a part of the Willow Springs Wetlands Restoration Project which opened in October 2017. The project restored 11 acres of a 48-acre degraded oil well site into wetlands. These highlight the pivotal role the ecosystem played in the City of Long Beach's establishment in the late…
Average elevation: 12 m

Middelburg
South Africa > Mpumalanga > Nkangala > Steve Tshwete Local Municipality
Average elevation: 1,493 m

Harare
Harare (/həˈrɑːreɪ/ hə-RAR-ay), formerly known as Salisbury, is the capital and largest city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 982.3 km2 (379.3 sq mi), a population of 1,849,600 as of the 2022 census, and an estimated 2,487,209 people in its metropolitan province. The city is situated in…
Average elevation: 1,470 m

North Sea
Average elevation: 92 m

Umlazi
South Africa > KwaZulu-Natal > eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality
Umlazi is situated on a series of undulating hills at an average elevation of 101 metres above sea level between the uMlaza River to the north and the uMbokodweni River to the south. Another river running through Umlazi is the Siphingo River which also runs towards the south of the township.
Average elevation: 100 m

Free State
The Free State is situated on a succession of flat grassy plains sprinkled with pastureland, resting on a general elevation of 3,800 feet only broken by the occasional hill or kopje. The rich soil and pleasant climate allow for a thriving agricultural industry. With more than 30,000 farms, which produce over…
Average elevation: 1,499 m

Matzikama Local Municipality
South Africa > Western Cape > West Coast District Municipality
Average elevation: 309 m

Kendrew
South Africa > Eastern Cape > Sarah Baartman District Municipality > Camdeboo Local Municipality
Average elevation: 614 m

Area di sosta turistica Info Point Appia Antica X-XI miglio
Italy > Lazio > Roma Capitale > Marino > Poggio delle Mole
Average elevation: 152 m

Welbedacht Dam
South Africa > Free State > Xhariep District Municipality > Naledi Local Municipality
Average elevation: 1,452 m

Queens
United States > New York > Queens County > New York
Many of the village street grids of Queens had only worded names, some were numbered according to local numbering schemes, and some had a mix of words and numbers. In the early 1920s, a "Philadelphia Plan" was instituted to overlay one numbered system upon the whole borough. The Topographical Bureau, Borough…
Average elevation: 11 m

Tankwa Karoo National Park - Gate - No Entry
South Africa > Northern Cape > Namakwa District Municipality > Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality
Average elevation: 491 m

Mogale City Local Municipality
South Africa > Gauteng > West Rand District Municipality
Average elevation: 1,512 m