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South Africa is located at the southern end of the African continent, sharing its northern border with Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Swaziland, as well as a circumscribing border with Lesotho. The capital city is Pretoria.
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  • Population: 44,344,136
  • Land Area: 1,219,912 sq km
  • Capital City: Pretoria
  • Languages: Afrikaans,  English,  Ndebele,  Pedi,  Sotho,  Tswana,  Xhosa,  Zulu,  Swazi,  Tsongo,  Venda
  • Religions: 68% Christian, 2% Muslim, 1.5% Hindu, 28.5% indigenous beliefs and other
  • Government: republic
  • Date of independence: 5/31/1910
  • GDP: $491.4 billion (2004 est.)

These data are from the World Factbook


  • Visit the South Africa country page of MSU's globalEDGE.
News & Travel
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  • Ananzi - The Ananzi search engine searches only sites from South Africa. Site is in English.
  • African National Congress Home Page - The ANC is the majority party in the South African Government. It came to power after the first democratic elections in April 1994. Its majority was confirmed in the national elections on 2 June 1999.


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