Country Information South Africa

Map South Africa:


Capital:	Pretoria; note: Cape Town is the legislative center and Bloemfontein the judicial center
Geography South Africa:
Continent:	Africa
Location:	Southern Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa
Area:	1,223,201 km²
Geographic coordinates:	29 00 S, 24 00 E
Elevation extremes:	lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m
	highest point: Njesuthi 3,408 m
People South Africa:
Population:	42,718,530 note: South Africa took a census October 1996 that showed a population of 40,583,611 (after an official adjustment for a 6.8% underenumeration based on a postenumeration survey); estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2004 est.)
Language(s):	11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
Economy South Africa:
Currency:	rand (ZAR)
Currency code:	ZAR
Miscellaneous South Africa:
Country code plate:	ZA
Internet country code:	.za
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