Gqeberha, South Africa

Gqeberha, South Africa is a submarine cable landing point in South Africa (coordinates -33.9625°, 25.6233°). It serves 1 submarine cable system, making it a single-cable landing in South Africa's international connectivity infrastructure.

Gqeberha, also known as Port Elizabeth and colloquially referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipality, South Africa's second-smallest metropolitan municipality by area. It is the sixth-most populous city in South Africa and is the cultural, economic and financial hub of the Eastern Cape. Wikipedia

Connected submarine cables

Connectivity profile

From Gqeberha, South Africa, international traffic can reach 34 countries through 1 cable system. Destinations include Angola, Bahrain, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Dem. Rep., Djibouti, Egypt, France and 26 more. This location depends on a single cable system — a characteristic that makes it strategically sensitive to physical disruptions.

Monitoring status

GeoCables recorded 2 monitoring events on cables serving Gqeberha, South Africa in the past 90 days. Our monitoring network continuously samples latency from external probes to targets reachable via these cables.

About the cables

• 2Africa (2024) — 2Africa is a major intercontinental submarine cable system spanning 34 countries across West Africa, Middle East, Southern Africa. With 50 landing points — including Abidjan, Abu Dhabi, Accra, Al Faw, Al Khobar, and 45 more — it forms one of the backbone links carrying international internet traffic between continents. Read more →

Submarine cable data from TeleGeography. Geographic context from Wikipedia. Monitoring metrics updated continuously by GeoCables.