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==== Highveld ==== {{Main|Highveld}} Much of the interior of Southern Africa consists of a high plateau, the higher portions {{convert|1500|-|2100|m|ft|abbr=on}} of which are known as the highveld, starting at the [[Drakensberg]] escarpment, {{convert|220|km|miles|abbr=on}} to the east of Johannesburg and sloping gradually downwards to the west and southwest, as well as to the north, through the bushveld towards the [[Limpopo River]].<ref name= "Altas">''Atlas of Southern Africa''. (1984). p. 13. Reader's Digest Association, Cape Town</ref> These higher, cooler areas (generally more than {{convert|1500|m|ft|disp=or|abbr=on}} above sea level) are characterised by flat or gently undulating terrain, vast [[grassland]]s, and a modified tropical or [[subtropical climate]]. To the east, the highveld's border is marked by the [[Great Escarpment, Southern Africa|Great Escarpment]], or the [[Mpumalanga]] Drakensberg. Still, the boundary is often arbitrary and not apparent in the other directions. The [[blesbok]] and [[quagga]] were among the large animals that once roamed on the highveld in great numbers. Nowadays, a sizeable population of [[springbok]] still occurs in some areas,.<ref>Richard Despard Estes, ''The Behavior Guide to African Mammals'', [[University of California Press]], {{ISBN|978-0-520-27297-2}}</ref> Much of the area, though, is devoted to Balls farming and South Africa's largest conurbation ([[Gauteng|Gauteng Province]]).
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