Download South Africa Administrative Boundary Shapefiles - Provinces, Districts, Wards and more -

Hello GIS enthusiasts, IGISMAP has now published the latest GIS vector data of South Africa administrative levels. Links for downloading the shapefiles of the important administrative divisions of South Africa are provided in the following. You can also download these data in KML, GeoJSON or CSV formats.

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All data available are in GCS datum EPSG:4326 WGS84 CRS (Coordinate Reference System).
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Download Free Shapefile Data of South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. South Africa is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometers (1,739 mi) of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans to the north by the neighboring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini and it surrounds the enclaved country of Lesotho. It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World, and the most populous country located entirely south of the equator. The largest city is Johannesburg.

Download South Africa National Outline Boundary Shapefile

Download South Africa Province Shapefile Data

South Africa is divided into nine provinces as following:

Eastern Cape
Free State
Gauteng
KwaZulu-Natal
Limpopo
Mpumalanga
North West
Northern Cape
Western Cape

Download South Africa Province Boundaries Shapefile

Download South Africa District Shapefile Data

Download South Africa District Boundaries Shapefile

Download South Africa Wards Shapefile Data

Download South Africa Ward Boundaries Shapefile

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11 thoughts on “Download South Africa Administrative Boundary Shapefiles – Provinces, Districts, Wards and more”

Hi,
Do you have a shapefile of south africa with districts?

Juhi Acharya says:
August 10, 2020 at 5:03 pm
https://map.igismap.com/gis-data/south%20africa/administrative_boundaries_polygon Please try this
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1. Zandre Allison says:
  October 6, 2021 at 4:19 pm
  Good day, anyone perhaps have a shape file of storm water drainage systems in western cape
  please
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Hi do you have a specific layer with South Africa township

Hi,
do you have a shapefile of South African Provinces and all other countries on the same layer?
E.g. Western Cape, Eastern Cape, Lesotho, Italy

Juhi Acharya says:
April 23, 2021 at 5:50 pm
Hi Hendrik you can find shapefile of South Africa Province here https://map.igismap.com/gis-data/south%20africa/administrative_boundaries_province_polygon
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Hi
Im looking for a shapefile with South African towns as poylgons, not points

I am looking for a shapefile of Biomes in SouthAfrica esp the savanna biome. Kindly assist

Hi
If anyone knows where to access a shapefile of farms in the northern Cape, Pixley ka Seme Municipality District.
Thanks
Martina

Please, could you kindly help me with the shapefiles for existing and proposed solar projects in the northern cape province

Hi am looking for a shapefile of only Johannesburg with road network, land use and buildings.
Could you please help.