The lilac-breasted roller is found more or less continuously throughout eastern and southern Africa from the Red Sea coasts of Ethiopia and northwest Somalia to the Angola coast and northern South Africa.
Xipisisi xi anama ngopfu kumbe kantsongo hiku vuyelela hinkwako vuxeni nale dzongeni wa Afrikaku suka eribuweni ra Red sea na Ethopia na n'walungu-vupeladyambu wa Somalia kuya eribuweni ra Angola na n'walungu Afrika-Dzonga.