---
id: "za_province"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["geo", "government"]
country: ["ZA"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/za_province"
---

# South African province (`za_province`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Name of one of the nine provinces of South Africa, such as Gauteng, Western Cape or KwaZulu-Natal. The code is the pattern za_province_code.

- Parent datatype: `admin_area_1`
- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Geographic identifiers (geo), Government related (government)
- Countries: South Africa (ZA)
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: categorical
- Patterns: `za_province_code`

## Examples

- `Gauteng`
- `Western Cape`
- `KwaZulu-Natal`

## Mappings

- fta: `STATE_PROVINCE.PROVINCE_NAME_ZA`
- schema_org: `addressRegion`

## Supported by tools

- `fta`

## Translations

- ru: Провинция ЮАР

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provinces_of_South_Africa>
- other: <https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: regexp, negative example.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/za_province.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/ZA/geo/za_province.yaml>