South Africa · KwaZulu-Natal
Born in Durban
Durban is home to 3.3 million people in KwaZulu-Natal. It is the number 3 city in South Africa by population. Sourced: GeoNames
Among the largest cities in South Africa
Johannesburg9.4 million
Cape Town4.8 million
Durban3.3 million
Pretoria2.1 million
Soweto1.7 million
Gqeberha1.1 million
Soshanguve872,309
Pietermaritzburg839,327
Sourced: GeoNames Population. Durban is highlighted.
South Africa as a whole
- Life expectancy at birth: 62.6 years for boys, 69.6 for girls Sourced: UN WPP 2024
- Children who die before age 5: 37.4 in every 1,000 births Sourced: UN WPP 2024
These are national figures: the game does not have separate health figures for Durban. More about South Africa
Live a life in Durban
Choose Durban and you are born there, to a family drawn from the real mix of the place. Then you live it year by year, with a few choices that bend the odds. About an hour, and every life replays exactly from its seed.
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