As of 2016, the majority of its 745,758 residents spoke Sepedi, also known as Northern Sotho.

Waterberg is the first region in the northern part of South Africa to be named as a Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.

The extensive rock formation was shaped by hundreds of millions of years of riverine erosion to yield diverse bluff and butte landform.

[4] The ecosystem can be characterised as a dry deciduous forest or Bushveld.

Within the Waterberg there are archaeological finds dating to the Stone Age, and nearby are early evolutionary finds related to the origin of humans.