South Africa: IP addresses and networks
South Africa holds 27,182,848 public IPv4 addresses — 0.74% of all allocated IPv4 space, which ranks it #20 worldwide. Its address space is administered by AFRINIC.
It also holds enough IPv6 to cover 352,130,226 end-site networks, a figure that says more about how recently its providers deployed IPv6 than about how many people live there.
865 autonomous system numbers are registered there, and 650 of them currently announce routes on the public internet.
Allocation
- IPv4 addresses
- 27,182,848
- IPv6 end-site networks
- 352,130,226
- Share of world IPv4
- 0.74%
- World rank by IPv4
- #20
Network
- Regional registry
- AFRINIC
- Registered AS numbers
- 865
- Networks announcing routes
- 650
- Country
- ZA
South Africa: largest networks
| AS number | Network | IPv4 addresses |
|---|---|---|
| AS3741 | IS | 2,612,992 |
| AS16637 | MTNNS-AS | 2,462,976 |
| AS29975 | VODACOM- | 1,747,200 |
| AS37168 | CELL-C | 1,703,936 |
| AS37457 | Telkom-Internet | 1,577,216 |
| AS5713 | SAIX-NET | 1,492,736 |
| AS12091 | MTNNS-1 | 1,254,144 |
| AS2018 | TENET-1 | 1,148,160 |
Allocation reflects when a country's networks joined the internet rather than its population, and addresses registered here can be routed anywhere in the world. That is one of the reasons IP geolocation is an estimate rather than a fact.
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Source: the five regional internet registries' delegated-statistics files and the public IP-to-ASN table. Updated 2026-09-13.