Amsterdam, Mpumalanga
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Amsterdam is a small sheep farming town in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Other than large sheep farms, there are large plantations of gum, pine and wattle trees in the area.
The area was set up as a republic in 1864 by a Scotsman Alexander McCorkindale who called it New Scotland and its capital Roburnia was established in 1881, named after the Scottish poet Robert Burns. In 1882 Roburnia was renamed after Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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