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 .

Eastern Cape

• 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)

• Balgowan
• Dundee
• Glencoe
• Scottburgh

Kelso, Kwazulu, South Africa

Gauteng

• Suburbs of Johannesburg http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_johannesburg.htm
• 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

• 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 http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_cape_town.htm
• 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 http://www.rampantscotland.com/placenames/placename_cape_town.htm