City
Mbabane
Capital of Eswatini
What guided this image
- Landmarks
- New Supreme Court of Eswatini; Allister Miller Street and Gwamile Street; Mbabane River; Coronation Park and the Mbabane Golf Course; Pine Valley and Mountain View
- Viewpoint
- Favor an elevated viewpoint from the mountain slopes overlooking the bowl (such as from Mountain View or along the Pine Valley road), looking down into the valley center, with the civic towers rising amid green trees and the layered Highveld ridges receding in the background.
- Palette
- Green should be the predominant color, especially in the densely forested pine and eucalyptus hills, parklands, and mountain pastures.
- Guarded against
- Not a generic African town or flat savanna
Population76,218Wikidata: 60,015
Coordinates26.32°S, 31.13°E
Elevation1,243 m
Area150 km²
Time zoneAfrica/MbabaneUTC+2
Solar noon11:55clock runs 0.1 h behind the sun
Through the Earth
Dig straight through the Earth from Mbabane and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Hana, United States — 953 km from the exact antipodal point.
Nearest cities in the atlas
| Lobamba | SZ | 18 km |
| Matola | MZ | 139 km |
| Maputo | MZ | 150 km |
| Pretoria | ZA | 301 km |
| Johannesburg | ZA | 308 km |
| Soweto | ZA | 326 km |
| Durban | ZA | 394 km |
| Maseru | LS | 490 km |
Twinned cities
- Fort Worth US
- Maputo MZ
- Taipei TW
3 of 6 twinned cities are in this atlas. See the full network →