Telegraph Travel Awards 2023: South Africa named greatest Country on Earth & Cape Town greatest City on Earth!

For the first time since 2019, The Telegraph newspaper held the Telegraph Travel Awards, one of Britain's most comprehensive, wide-ranging and reliable reader travel surveys. Almost 30 000 readers of the newspaper took part in the survey and voted Cape Town the "greatest city on Earth" and South Africa the "greatest country on Earth". Congratulations!
Cape Town scooped the award in every subsequent edition of the Telegraph Travel Awards since 2013, while South Africa dethroned New Zealand, which has been named the "greatest country on Earth" by readers of The Telegraph for a decade, as the country of choice.

Telegraph Travel Awards' "greatest city on Earth":

1. Cape Town
2. Venice
3. Seville
4. Vancouver
5. Rome
6. Florence
7. Rio de Janeiro
8. Sydney
9. Kyoto
10. Dubrovnik

Telegraph Travel Awards' "greatest country on Earth":

1. South Africa
2. New Zealand
3. Maldives
4. Japan
5. Australia
6. Italy
7. Kenya
8. India
9. Costa Rica
10. Botswana