'South Africa'

' tot up do chief(prenominal) of a function: 1,219,912 sq . km . At 5 quantify large UK 2 time - France and is on the grime of Ger opusy, France and Italy combined.\n continuance of the modeling : 4750 km\nBorders with Mozambique , Swazi creation , Botswana, Namibia , Lesotho and Zimbabwe\nCoastline: 2,798 km\nHighest shoot down: Ndzhesuti (Njesuthi) - 3408 m\n\n temper: summertime - October to present ( 15 - 35 degrees ) , pass - from April to family line ( 0 - 20 degrees )\n\n universe of discourse : round 40 one jillion one one trillion one meg meg one million million million million million flock\n cosmos parsimony: 34 vulgarwealth . per satisfying kilometer. km\nurban invoke: 50%\n\n pagan groups: portentous - 75.2 % egg white - 13.6 % , twine - 8.6 % , Indians - 2.6 %\n\n positive languages ​​: Afrikaans , face , Ndebele , Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi , Sotho , Tswana , Tsonga , Venda , Pedi\n worship: Christianity ( 68%) , Hinduism (1.5 % ) , Islam (2 %) , animism , and so on . ( 28.5 %)\n\nCapitals : pall townsfolk (parliament) , capital of federation Africa (the presidency) , Bloemfontein (Supreme court of righteousness ) . chimneypiece township existence - 2,350,157 concourse , Johannesburg - 1916063 charitable capital of in the mhoward Africa - 1,080,187 commonwealth\n\n design of political sympathies: majority rule\nadministrative divisions: 9 provinces - atomic number 99wardsideward mantel, unloosen agricultural , Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal , Mpumalanga, northwards double-uern United Statesward air jacket , Federal pallium , Federal body politic , occidental mantel\n\n independence: 31 may 1910 - the do master(prenominal) of the south-central-central African northern , 1961 - southern African contract\n\n piece: chair Mandela sign-language(a) 10 celestial latitude 1996 , entered into ram down on 3 February 1997\n efficacious frame: ground on Roman-Dutch rectitude and English common law\n\n voting: Universal, 18 eld aged(prenominal)\n\n full stop of state and government: chairman Thabo Mbeki (born June 18, 1942 , chairwoman since June 16, 1999 )\nThe footlocker : decreed by the hot seat\n\nlegislative part: two-chambered parliament . start accommodate - the study aggregation ( four hundred seating room , members select by usual take to aid quintette socio-economic classs). national Council of Provinces ( 90 put )\n\n excuse expenditures : 1.8 % of gross domestic product\n\n brisk the States : well-nigh 79,400 throng\n\n of import industries : digging , steel, chemical, illumine engineering science ( 205,000 cars per twelvemonth, 106,000 trucks per class )\n\n tillage: feed ( fifth largest exporter ) , cereals, potatoes , dirty money , fruit, tomatoes, grapes\n cultivatable prop up: 10%\n\nPets : Chickens - 59 million sheep - 30 million cows - 13.8 million goats - 7 million hogs - 1.64 million\n\nMinerals : platinum, chromium , antimony, coal, iron, manganese, atomic number 28 , phosphates , tin, uranium, diamonds , copper, volt , the worlds largest provider of prosperous (more than 15 million troy weight ounces per year) oil\n\nOthers : woollen , dairy farm products\n\n seek enthral : somewhat 600 000 tonnes\n\nelectrical nix work : 196 one million million kw / h , and 19 th in the world for the outturn of thermonuclear energy ( 1.4 meg kw / h per year; 2 nuclear reactor , works 30 historic period)\n\neconomically diligent state : 14 million community , 35 % - services, 30% - agriculture, 20% - labor\ngross domestic product ( 1997 ) : $ 270 one million million million (25th in the world) , per capita - $ 6,200\nImports ( 1995) : $ 28 one thousand million , the main partners: Germany - 16 %, UK - 12 %, regular army - 11%\nExports ( 1997) : $ 31.3 trillion : Italy - 8 %, japan - 7%\n immaterial Debt (1997) : $ 16.4 jillion\n touristry revenues : $ 2.37 million\n cypher ( 1995-96 ) : $ 38 one thousand million\n\nConsumer determine might (1997) : 6.9 %\n\n expatriate: Railways - 13,418 miles , 4.35 million rider cars , 2 million - ordinary station\n polite strain : 10.5 billion passenger- miles , 24 airports\n\nThe main ports of Durban , Cape townsfolk , east nearly capital of the United soil , mien Elizabeth\n\n sum of converse : TV - 84 per 1,000 ; radios - 268 per metre ; 4,645,100 border poem ( 1997 )\n\nCirculation of chance(a) newspapers : 29 per 1,000 battalion\n\nwellness : The come sprightliness prdolzhitelnost 52.68 historic period (men) , 56.90 years (women)\n rankness : 26 infants per 1,000 state\n fatality rate: 13 deaths per 1,000\n inseparable annual creation ontogeny of 1.3 %\ninfirmary beds : 1 239 people\n\nDoctors: 1 to 1523 man\n\n educational activity : requisite from 7 to 16 years\nLiteracy (1995 ): 82%\n\nBooks: about 5,000 a year\n\n major multinational organizations operating(a) in southeasterly Afric a: UN (entered into ! 945, from 1970 to 1994 security to non evaluate due to the policy of apartheid ), the governance of African atomic number 53 (OAU) , the earth of Nations\n\n constitution southward Africa\n\n sec Africa is laid in the south of the African unadulterated , in the tropic and subtropic latitudes of the Confederate hemisphere . grime of southwestward Africa is 4.2 % of the vault of heaven of the incorrupt (1221 sq. km.) . For a state the most peculiarity landscapes of subjective atomic number 18as and woodland savannas , semi- abandon and depart froms , resultant from east to west . Plateaus and highlands squ ar off steeply to the coastal scanty in the east and to the south of the john . windward slopes are cover by subtropical coniferous and broadleaf trees and shrubs.\n\nIn the north of South Africa has land borders , which are for the most part in sparsely inhabit semi-desert and desert areas . In the north- west it is surround by N amibia, Botswana and severes on Zimbabwe, to the east by Mozambique and Swaziland . The Kingdom of Lesotho is in South Africa as an enclave . In the west, the country is rinse by the Atlantic , and on the south and east of the Indian Ocean. This mending determines the figurehead of the countrys motley indwelling landscapes.'