South Africa
Main article: Districts of South AfricaIn South Africa, the district municipality forms the layer of government below the provinces. A district municipality is in turn divided into several local municipalities.
This structure varies in the eight largest urban areas:
- Bloemfontein (seat of the Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality),
- Cape Town (City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality),
- Durban (seat of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality),
- East London / King Williams Town (seat of the Buffalo City Metropolitan Municipality),
- East Rand (seat of the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality),
- Johannesburg (City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality),
- Port Elizabeth incl. Uitenhage (seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality) and
- Pretoria (seat of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality),
where a metropolitan municipality replaces both a district and a local municipality.
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