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The eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality ( Zulu: UMasipala weDolobhakazi laseThekwini) is a metropolitan municipality, created in 2000, that includes the city of Durban and surrounding towns. eThekwini is one of the 11 districts of the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa. As of 2011, the majority of its 3,442,361 inhabitants spoke isiZulu .
Durban is the seat of the larger eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, which spans an area of 2,556 km 2 (987 sq mi) and had a population of 4.2 million in 2022, making the metropolitan population one of Africa's largest on the Indian Ocean. Within the city limits, Durban's population was 595,061 in 2011.
This is a list of suburbs in the Ethekwini Metropolitan Municipality which includes the city of Durban and surrounding towns. Some of these are commonly used names for regions, collections of suburbs (e.g. Berea, Bluff, Overport), or formerly independent towns that are themselves composed of suburbs (e.g. Kingsburgh, Queensburgh, Westville) and do not necessarily correspond to specific legal ...
KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa is divided, for local government purposes, into one metropolitan municipality (the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality) and ten district municipalities. The district municipalities are in turn divided into forty-three local municipalities.
Pinetown. / 29.817°S 30.850°E / -29.817; 30.850. Pinetown is a city that forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, based just inland from Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The town is situated 16 km (10 mi) north-west of Durban and 64 km (40 mi) south-east of Pietermaritzburg .
Metropolitan municipalities were brought about during reforms of the 1990s so that cities could be governed as single entities. For example, eThekwini (including Durban) is today a single municipality formed from what were more than 40 separate jurisdictions before 1994.
In 2000 Durban became the seat of the newly created eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality. 1854–1910 Town Hall, Durban, circa 1891. Part of a series on the.
Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal. / 29.650°S 31.050°E / -29.650; 31.050. Verulam ( / vɛrləm /) is a town 24 kilometres north of Durban in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and forms part of the eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, governing the Greater Durban metropolitan area.