Google Street View in Africa


In Africa, Google Street View is available in Botswana, Uganda South Africa, Kenya, Eswatini, Lesotho, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Ghana, Tunisia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Namibia, the Canary Islands of Spain. It is also available for a few select tourist attractions in the Mali, Tanzania, Egypt, Madagascar.

Background

On September 1, 2009, Google announced that it started collecting images in South Africa for Google Maps Street View. Google is currently driving around South Africa in Toyota Priuses, taking photographs of locations in the cities of Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban and East London. Google Trikes are also being used for the first time to map popular tourist destinations, such as the scenic Chapman's Peak Drive and Table Mountain in Cape Town, Soccer City in Johannesburg, and the new Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban.
Images of South Africa were made available on Google Street View on June 8, 2010.
On December 8, 2010, more locations in South Africa were added. These were mostly rural and main roads, as well as a much larger coverage of the Limpopo province. After the update, the borders of South Africa's neighboring countries could be reached.
On November 27, 2012, Botswana was added.
On March 18, 2013, Tanzania was added.
On April 23, 2013, Lesotho was added.
On September 20, 2013, Eswatini was added.
On April 21, 2014, more locations in Lesotho and Botswana were added.
On September 9, 2014, landmarks in Egypt were added.
On February 18, 2014, more locations in South Africa were added.
On May 6, 2015, Madagascar was added.
On September 15, 2015, landmarks in Kenya were added.
On October 8, 2015, Uganda was added.
On February 8, 2017, Ghana, Senegal and landmarks in Uganda were added.
On March 18, 2017, Tunisia was added.
On July 27, 2017, Nigeria was added.
On January 12, 2019, landmarks in Mali was added
On July 25, 2018, landmarks in Nigeria were added.
On October 4, 2018, Kenya was added.
On July 24, 2019, more locations in Nigeria were added.
In October 2022, more locations in Kenya were added. More locations were also added in Senegal and Nigeria. Later in the same month, the first official footage was added for Rwanda was added, this can be only be found in the capital Kigali for now. A generation four camera was used for coverage of all these countries.
On June 4, 2025, Namibia was added.

Areas included

France

Most roads in Réunion.

Ghana

Main roads and several cities throughout the country

Kenya

Samburu National Reserve, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, parts of Marania Farm near Mount Kenya

Lesotho

Western half of the country: Maseru and major roads.

Madagascar

Landmarks: Avenue of the Baobabs, Rova of Antananarivo
Water views of Barren Isles, Nosy Komba, Sambirano River, Ambalahonko, Velondriake, Avenue of the Baobabs, and the Sacred Forest.
There is a limited street view on just a few roads in the towns of Ambanja, Belo sur Mer and Morondava.

Nigeria

Most major cities like Abuja, Benin City, Enugu, Kano, Ibadan, Lagos and surroundings, roads between. Except areas of Northern Nigeria like Katsina, Maiduguri and Birnin Kebbi.

Portugal

In Madeira,
most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads are covered.
In the Azores, the islands of São Miguel Island and Terceira Island have good coverage.

Rwanda

In October 2022, Google released official coverage in the capital Kigali, and this adds a new country to Street View. Google used a generation four camera to capture this footage with.
Cities such as Byumba, Nyagatare and Rwamagana were added afterwards.

São Tomé and Príncipe

Coverage extends to most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads on both major islands.

South Africa

Spain

The Canary Islands do geographically belong to Africa according to geographical definitions.
Most towns, cities, villages, major and rural roads in the Canary Islands are covered.
Ceuta and Melilla have some coverage.

Tanzania

Unofficial coverage

Future Coverage

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