Locations in South Africa with a Scottish name

This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to parts of South Africa by Scottish emigrants or explorers.

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## Eastern Cape

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*     * Aberdeen
* Albany, South Africa (named after Albany, New York, in turn from the Gaelic name for Scotland, Alba)
* Cathcart (George Cathcart)
* Grahamstown (John Graham (British Army officer))

## KwaZulu-Natal (native)

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*     * Balgowan
* Dundee
* Glencoe
* Scottburgh

Kelso, Kwazulu, South Africa

## Gauteng

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*     * Suburbs of Johannesburg [1]
* Abbotsford
* Argyll
* Atholl
* Balmoral
* Birnam
* Blairgowrie
* Brushwood Haugh (Haugh being a Lowland Scots word for meadow)
* Buccleuch
* Craighall
* Douglasdale
* Dunkeld
* Dunnotar
* Dunvegan
* Glen Atholl
* Glen Esk
* Heriotdale
* Kelvin
* Melrose
* Melville
* Moffat View
* Morningside
* Morningside Manor
* Strathavon
* Towns on the East Rand
* Germiston
* Wattville

## Mpumalanga

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*     * Balfour (formerly "McHattiesburg")

## North West Province

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*     * Orkney

## Northern Cape

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*     * Alexander Bay (James Edward Alexander)
* Campbell
* Sutherland

## Western Cape

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*     * Arniston (Arniston, Midlothian)
* Clanwilliam
* Elgin
* Gordon's Bay
* McGregor
* Napier
* Pringle Bay
* Robertson (Rev William Robertson)
* Suburbs of Cape Town [2]
* Airlie
* Balvenie
* Bellville (after Charles Davidson Bell, Surveyor-General of the Cape from 1848 to 1872)
* Bonnie Brook (Burn is the normal form in Scotland)
* Brackenfell
* Clunie
* Crawford
* Crofters' Valley
* Dunoon
* Dunrobin
* Glencairn
* Lochiel
* Schotsche Kloof - Afrikaans for "Scottish Ravine".
* St Kilda
* The Glen
* Finlay's Point
* Murray's Bay, on Robben Island, named after John Murray, a Scottish whaler [3]

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Locations in the world with British names

English|

* Australia
* Barbados
* Canada
* Sri Lanka
* United States

Scottish|

* Australia
* Canada
* New Zealand
* Sri Lanka
* South Africa
* United States

Welsh|

* Australia
* United States

Other|

* Places named after the Channel Islands

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