Cape Coral is a large coastal city in Southwest Florida, occupying a peninsula between the Caloosahatchee River and Matlacha Pass. Its most distinctive feature is an extensive network of more than 400 miles of canals, many connecting with the Caloosahatchee River and Gulf waters. The city was developed as a planned waterfront community, with broad streets, residential neighborhoods, parks, and numerous properties along canals.

Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, grew from a modest colonial port into a city shaped by trade, migration, and independence.

Lekki is a rapidly developed coastal district of Lagos, Nigeria, extending eastward along the Lekki Peninsula between the Atlantic Ocean and Lagos Lagoon.

San Simeon is a small coastal community on California’s Central Coast, set along the Pacific Ocean between Cambria and Big Sur. The area is known for rugged shoreline, coastal grasslands, forested hills, and offshore rocks, with the Santa Lucia Mountains rising inland.

Amakhala Game Reserve is a private wildlife reserve in South Africa’s Eastern Cape province. Its landscape includes open grasslands, wooded valleys, rolling hills and sections of the Bushman’s River.