Eastern Cape Online

Eight regions, one province

The Eastern Cape's eight regions explained — what each one looks like, which towns sit in it and what there is to do when you get there.

Beach and forested hills on the Wild Coast at Port St Johns

Wild Coast

Cliffs, river mouths and green hills

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Sunset over the beachfront in Nelson Mandela Bay

Nelson Mandela Bay

The province's biggest city and its bay

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View across East London on the Eastern Cape coast

Buffalo City

East London, Qonce and the coast between

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Rolling green hills and homesteads near Mqanduli

OR Tambo

Mthatha, Qunu and the road to the sea

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Cape Dutch buildings on a wide street in Graaff-Reinet

Sarah Baartman

Sunshine Coast, settler towns and Karoo

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A forest cottage at Hogsback in the Amathole mountains

Amathole

Mountains, forest and frontier history

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Open Karoo landscape in the Eastern Cape interior

Chris Hani

Karoo plains and inland market towns

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Open highland landscape in the north-eastern Eastern Cape

Joe Gqabi

High mountains and snow country

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