Situated next to East London in the Eastern Cape province. It is reputed to be the second largest township in South Africa after Soweto. It is divided into seventeen zones or units named in the chronological order of the their being built. The central market, in N.U.2 (Zone 2) district is called "The Highway". Here many informal traders sell their wares on the streets and one may catch a taxi. East London (Afrikaans: Oos-Londen, Xhosa: Imonti) is a city in southeast South Africa, situated in the Eastern Cape Province at 32. ... The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa. ... In South Africa, the term township usually refers to the (often underdeveloped) urban residential areas that, under Apartheid, were reserved for non-whites (Africans, Coloureds and Indians) who lived near or worked in areas that were designated white-only. Soweto (actually a group of townships) and Alexandra are two of... Johannesburg, including Soweto, from the International Space Station Soweto is an urban area in Johannesburg, in Gauteng province South Africa whose northern boundary begins about 15km south-west of central Johannesburg. ...