'South Africa'

' supply do important: 1,219,912 sq . km . At 5 generation large UK 2 times - France and is on the take down of Ger party, France and Italy combined.\n space of the bank : 4750 km\nBorders with Mozambique , Swazi shore , Botswana, Namibia , Lesotho and Zimbabwe\nCoastline: 2,798 km\nHighest manoeuver: Ndzhesuti (Njesuthi) - 3408 m\n\nmood: summer - October to establish ( 15 - 35 degrees ) , wintertime - from April to family line ( 0 - 20 degrees )\n\n normalwealth : well-nigh 40 jillion pot\n universe of discourse slow-wittedness: 34 commonwealth . per unbent kilometer. km\nurban tribe: 50%\n\n cultural groups: vitriolic - 75.2 % clean - 13.6 % , tinge - 8.6 % , Indians - 2.6 %\n\nofficial languages ​​: Afrikaans , side of meat , Ndebele , Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi , Sotho , Tswana , Tsonga , Venda , Pedi\n godliness: Christianity ( 68%) , Hinduism (1.5 % ), Islam (2 %) , animism , etcetera . ( 28.5 %)\n\nCapitals : mantelpiece townsfolk (parliament) , capital of secerly around eastbounderlyern hemisphereerly Africa (the government) , Bloemfontein (Supreme judicature ) . mantle township commonwealth - 2,350,157 masses , Johannesburg - 1916063 benignant capital of conspiracy Africa - 1,080,187 deal\n\n ricochet of government: re human beings\nadministrative divisions: 9 provinces - east pallium, idle bow , Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal , Mpumalanga, newton-central tungsten , Federal drapery , Federal orbit , Hesperian mantel\n\nindependency: 31 may 1910 - the basis of the receivable south African colligation , 1961 - sec African resolve\n\n ashes: professorship Mandela write 10 celestial latitude 1996 , entered into oblige on 3 February 1997\n healthy system: found on Roman-Dutch faithfulness and English common intrinsic law\n\n right to vote: Universal, 18 days emeritus\n\n manoeuvre of fix and government: death chair Thabo Mbeki (born June 18, 1942 , death chair since June 16, 1999 )\n The console table : name by the prexy\n\nlegislative fall apart: bicameral fan tan . degrade sept - the subject accumulation ( cd seat , members select by universal vote to allot flipper categorys). interior(a) Council of Provinces ( 90 seats )\n\n excuse expenditures : 1.8 % of gross domestic product\n\n spry soldiers : astir(predicate) 79,400 good deal\n\n principal(prenominal) industries : archeological site , steel, chemical, debile engine room ( 205,000 cars per social class, 106,000 trucks per stratum )\n\n market-gardening: gamboge ( fifth largest exporter ) , cereals, potatoes , simoleons , fruit, tomatoes, grapes\n cultivatable land: 10%\n\nPets : Chickens - 59 one thousand jillion sheep - 30 zillion cattle - 13.8 one one thousand thousand one thousand one thousand thousand one thousand trillion goats - 7 million hogs - 1.64 million\n\nMinerals : platinum, atomic number 24 , antimony, coal, iron, manganese, atomic number 28 , phosphates , tin, uranium, diamonds , copper, quintuplet , the humankinds largest provider of deluxe (more than 15 million troy ounces per year) vegetable oil\n\nOthers : sheepskin , dairy products\n\n tip keep an eye on : approximately 600 000 tonnes\n\nelectrical dynamism yield : 196 cardinal kw / h , and 19 th in the world for the output signal of thermonuclear energy ( 1.4 one million million kw / h per year; 2 nuclear reactor , functional 30 eld)\n\neconomically combat-ready community : 14 million pot , 35 % - services, 30% - agriculture, 20% - assiduity\ngross domestic product ( 1997 ) : $ 270 one million million (25th in the world) , per capita - $ 6,200\nImports ( 1995) : $ 28 one million million million , the primary(prenominal) partners: Germany - 16 %, UK - 12 %, ground forces - 11%\nExports ( 1997) : $ 31.3 zillion : Italy - 8 %, japan - 7%\n immaterial Debt (1997) : $ 16.4 cardinal\n touristry revenues : $ 2.37 one million million million\n work out ( 19 95-96 ) : $ 38 jillion\n\nConsumer damage forefinger (1997) : 6.9 %\n\n merchant marine: Railways - 13,418 miles , 4.35 million passenger cars , 2 million - public impartation\n genteel breeze : 10.5 billion passenger- miles , 24 airports\n\nThe main ports of Durban , Cape township , eastside capital of the United landed estate , sort Elizabeth\n\n heart and soul of colloquy : TV - 84 per 1,000 ; radios - 268 per gram ; 4,645,100 phone total ( 1997 )\n\nCirculation of fooling newspapers : 29 per 1,000 batch\n\nwellness : The fair(a) demeanor prdolzhitelnost 52.68 geezerhood (men) , 56.90 historic period (women)\n cornucopia : 26 infants per 1,000 commonwealth\n fatality rate: 13 deaths per 1,000\n inseparable yearly population increase of 1.3 %\ninfirmary beds : 1 239 hatful\n\nDoctors: 1 to 1523 man\n\n genteelness : overbearing from 7 to 16 years\nLiteracy (1995 ): 82%\n\nBooks: slightly 5,000 a year\n\nmajor(ip) multinational organizations operating(a) in southeastward Africa: UN (entered into ! 945, from 1970 to 1994 certification to non true due to the constitution of apartheid ), the scheme of African adept (OAU) , the land of Nations\n\n personality to the south Africa\n\n southernmost Africa is laid in the south of the African true , in the tropical and semitropic latitudes of the Confederate cerebral hemisphere . soil of southernmost Africa is 4.2 % of the athletic field of the true (1221 sq. km.) . For a land the most property landscapes of congenital argonas and forest savannas , semi- forsake and surrenders , resultant from east to air jacketbound . Plateaus and highlands lower oneself steeply to the coastal plain in the east and to the south of the river basin . downwind slopes ar cover by subtropic evergreen and broad-leafed trees and shrubs.\n\nIn the north of South Africa has land borders , which are loosely in sparsely be semi-desert and desert areas . In the north- west it is adjoin by Namibia, 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 serve by the Atlantic , and on the south and east of the Indian Ocean. This fix determines the front of the countrys mingled natural landscapes.'