The Highveld (Afrikaans: Hoëveld, where veld means "field") is the portion of the South African inland plateau which has an altitude above roughly 1500 m, but below 2100 m, thus excluding the Lesotho mountain regions to the south-east of the Highveld. It is home to some of the country's most important commercial farming areas, as well as its largest concentration of metropolitan …

Veld (/ v ɛ l t / or / f ɛ l t /), also spelled veldt, is a type of wide open rural landscape in Southern Africa.Particularly, it is a flat area covered in grass or low scrub, especially in the countries of South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe and Botswana.A certain sub-tropical woodland ecoregion of Southern Africa has been officially defined as the Bushveld by the World Wide …