Eswatini, officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known by its former official name Swaziland and formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its north, west, south, and southeast. At no more than 200 km (120 mi) north to south and 130 km (81 mi) east to west, Eswatini is one of the smallest countries in Africa; despite this, its climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous highveld to a hot and dry lowveld.
A 19th-century Swazi container, carved in wood
Swaziland in Southern Africa, Johnston & Johnston, Edinburgh, 1897.
Landscape in Eswatini
Grewia villosa
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa. No definition is agreed upon, but some groupings include the United Nations geoscheme, the intergovernmental Southern African Development Community, and the physical geography definition based on the physical characteristics of the land.
A November 2002 satellite image of Southern Africa
A waterfall in the Witwatersrand region near Johannesburg
The Sandton section of Johannesburg, the financial centre of South Africa