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Durban

Durban ranks 357th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Tampa, Florida, Hampstead, and Gotha. Memorable people born in Durban include Cyril Cusack, Reggie Walker, and Navi Pillay. Memorable people who died in Durban include Mad Mike Hoare, Reggie Walker, and Gary Hocking. Durban has been the birth place of many soccer players and actors and the death place of many athletes and politicians. Durban is located in South Africa.

Durban is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape Town, and the largest city in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. Situated on the east coast of South Africa, on the Natal Bay of the Indian Ocean, Durban is South Africa's busiest port and was formerly named Port Natal. North of the harbour and city centre lies the mouth of the Umgeni River; the flat city centre rises to the hills of the Berea on the west; and to the south, running along the coast, is the Bluff. Durban is the seat of the larger eThekwini Metropolitan Municipality, which spans an area of 2,556 km2 (987 sq mi) and had a population of 4.2 million in 2022, making the metropolitan population one of Africa's largest on the Indian Ocean. The city has a humid subtropical climate, with hot, wet summers and mild, dry winters. Read more on Wikipedia