Durban, is the largest city of KwaZulu/Natal province, South Africa, and chief seaport of South Africa, located on Natal Bay of the Indian Ocean. European settlement began with a band of Cape Colony traders led by Francis G. Farewell, who charted the port in 1824 and named the site Port Natal.

Its civic and business centre is on flat land, rising gently to the slopes of the white residential district of the Berea, a ridge of hills encircling the harbour and beach. Durban's numerous parks include the Botanic Gardens with its orchid house, Jameson Park and its rose gardens, and Snake Park with its collection of poisonous reptiles.

After World War I Durban changed from a prim Victorian town to a modern metropolis with skyscrapers and multistoried buildings. It is the headquarters of South Africa's sugar industry and a centre of highly diversified manufacturing activity.

Tourism is important and is based on the city's proximity to KwaZulu/Natal's game and nature reserves and on the beaches and their facilities, such as an esplanade and an oceanarium. Durban has a larger Indian population than white; the area contains one of the largest concentrations of Indians in South Africa.

Ntuzuma, Umlazi, and Embumbulu districts to the immediate west have been developed as black; mostly Zulu commuter suburbs.

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