Scottish Place Names in Other Countries - South Africa

South Africa

  • Eastern Cape
    • Aberdeen
    • Albany, South Africa (named after Albany, New York, in turn from an old name for Scotland, Alba)
    • Cathcart (George Cathcart)
    • Grahamstown (John Graham (British Army officer))
  • KwaZulu-Natal (native)
    • Balgowan
    • Dundee
    • Glencoe
    • Scottburgh
  • Gauteng (native)
    • Suburbs of Johannesburg
      • Abbotsford
      • Argyll
      • Balmoral
      • Birnam
      • Blairgowrie
      • Brushwood Haugh (Haugh being a Lowland Scots word for meadow)
      • Buccleuch
      • Dunkeld
      • Dunnotar
      • Dunvegan
      • Glen Atholl
      • Glen Esk
      • Heriotdale
      • Kelvin
      • Melrose
      • Moffat View
      • Strathavon
      • Wattville
  • Mpumalanga
    • Balfour (formerly "McHattiesburg")
  • North West Province
    • Orkney
  • Northern Cape
    • Alexander Bay (James Edward Alexander)
    • Campbell
    • Sutherland
  • Western Cape
    • Arniston (Arniston, Midlothian)
    • Clanwilliam
    • Elgin
    • Gordon's Bay
    • McGregor
    • Napier
    • Pringle Bay
    • Robertson (Rev William Robertson)
    • Suburbs of Cape Town
      • 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)
      • Clunie
      • Crawford
      • Crofters' Valley
      • Dunoon
      • Dunrobin
      • Glencairn
      • Kelvingrove
      • Lochiel
      • Schotsche Kloof - Afrikaans for "Scottish Ravine".
      • St Kilda
      • The Glen
    • Finlay's Point
    • Murray's Bay, on Robbin Island, named after John Murray, a Scottish whaler

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