South Africa provinces quiz

South Africa provinces quiz: 9 provinces, 9 capitals, and the M pair

A learner revising the provinces for a Social Sciences test. All three quizzes ask all nine, as no capital shares its province’s name: “Find the place” names the province, “Find it from its capital” names the capital (“Find the one whose capital is Mahikeng”), and “Choose the capital” lights a province and offers four capitals.

1. Gauteng is the smallest province on the map, between North West, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and Free State: zoom in if you miss it.
2. In “Choose the capital”, Gauteng offers Johannesburg, two of its six nearest capitals and, as no other capital starts with J, one more from any province.
3. Mahikeng and Mbombela are the only capitals starting with M, so North West’s question always offers Mbombela and Mpumalanga’s always offers Mahikeng.
4. The end shows, say, “Done! 8/9 in 0:41”, the province missed (“North West · Mahikeng” in the capitals quiz) and “Practise the ones I missed”.

The capitals that cost points are the renamed ones and the small cities: Mbombela (once Nelspruit), Polokwane (once Pietersburg), Mahikeng (once Mafikeng), and Bhisho for the Eastern Cape. Pretoria, Durban and Gqeberha are never offered: only the nine capitals are.