Template:Largest cities of South Africa

Largest cities or towns in South Africa 2016 Community Survey ^[1], World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision ^[2]
	Rank		Province	Municipal pop.
Johannesburg Cape Town	1	Johannesburg style="text-align:left;" \| Gauteng	9,167,045	Durban Pretoria
	2	Cape Town style="text-align:left;" \| Western Cape	4,004,793
	3	Durban style="text-align:left;" \| KwaZulu-Natal	3,661,911
	4	Pretoria style="text-align:left;" \| Gauteng	2,437,000
	5	Gqeberha style="text-align:left;" \| Eastern Cape	1,263,051
	6	Vereeniging style="text-align:left;" \| Gauteng	957,528
	7	Soshanguve style="text-align:left;" \| Gauteng	841,000
	8	East London style="text-align:left;" \| Eastern Cape	810,528
	9	Bloemfontein style="text-align:left;" \| Free State	759,693
	10	Pietermaritzburg style="text-align:left;" \| KwaZulu-Natal	679,766

↑ "Community Survey 2016: Provinces at a Glance" (PDF). Statistics South Africa. Retrieved 29 April 2019.
↑ United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2018). "World Urbanization Prospects: The 2018 Revision, Online Edition". Retrieved 28 April 2019.