South Africa Fast Facts
South Africa Population: 45 million
South Africa Capital City: Pretoria - Administrative
Cape Town - Parliamentary
Bloemfontein - Judicial
South Africa has 3000km of beautiful coastline. The East coast is washed by the warm Mozambique current flowing south from the Equator, while the west coast is washed by cold waters of the Benguela current moving northwards from Antartica.
South Africa is spread over 1219090 sq km, which is bigger than Germany, France and Italy combined. Because of its size, wide range of latitudes, neighboring ocean currents and notable variety of topography, South Africa offers warm holiday destinations in a variety of locales all year round.
South Africa is divided into 9 Provinces: Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West and Western Cape.
The Capital of South Africa is Pretoria in the Gauteng province.
The Parliament is located at Cape Town.
The judicial capital is at Bloemfontein in the free state province.
Languages: English, Afrikaans, Zulu, Xhosa, seTswana, SouthSoho, North Soho, seTsonga, seSwati, tshiVenda and Ndebele.
Religion: The democratic constitution allows for freedom and association of all worship and hence the world's major religions, such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Hinduism, are present in South Africa.
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