Border is a region of

Eastern Cape The Eastern Cape is one of the provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are East London and Gqeberha. The second largest province in the country (at 168,966 km2) after Northern Cape, it was formed in ...

province in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countri ...

, comprising roughly the eastern half of the province. Its main centre is East London. Like the Boland region in

Western Cape The Western Cape is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country. It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of , and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020 ...

, Border does not have defined boundaries. The name has long been applied to sports teams that have represented the region in South African interprovincial competitions. The

Border Borders are usually defined as geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other subnational entities. Political borders c ...

rugby union Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its m ...

team has competed in interprovincial rugby union since 1891, and the

Border cricket team Border is the team representing the Border region in domestic first-class cricket in South Africa. The team began playing in March 1898. When Cricket South Africa introduced the franchise system in 2004, Border merged with Eastern Province to for ...

has competed in interprovincial cricket since 1898. The Border Tennis Association is one of the 14 provincial members of

Tennis South Africa Tennis South Africa (TSA) is the national governing body for the sport of tennis in South Africa. It is a not-for-profit organization, which "invests its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, from the grass-roots to the professio ...

Buster Farrer William Stephen "Buster" Farrer (born 8 December 1936) is a former South African cricketer who played in six Test matches between 1962 and 1964. He also played tennis and hockey at international level. Education and early cricket career Farrer ...

represented Border in six sports: cricket, tennis, squash, hockey, golf and bowls.Colin Bryden, ''All-Rounder: The Buster Farrer Story'', Aloe Publishing, Kidd's Beach, 2013, p. 6.

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Geography of the Eastern Cape {{EasternCape-geo-stub