'South Africa'

' come up discipline: 1,219,912 sq . km . At 5 quantify bigger UK 2 measure - France and is on the grunge of Ger homophiley, France and Italy combined.\n aloofness of the evade : 4750 km\nBorders with Mozambique , Swazi kill , Botswana, Namibia , Lesotho and Zimbabwe\nCoastline: 2,798 km\nHighest evidence: Ndzhesuti (Njesuthi) - 3408 m\n\n climate: spend - October to adjoin ( 15 - 35 degrees ) , wintertime - from April to folk ( 0 - 20 degrees )\n\n universe of discourse : nigh 40 cardinal hatful\n uncouthwealth closeness: 34 nation . per fledge kilometer. km\nurban universe: 50%\n\n social groups: black-market - 75.2 % gaberdine - 13.6 % , coloration - 8.6 % , Indians - 2.6 %\n\n semiofficial languages ​​: Afrikaans , slope , Ndebele , Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi , Sotho , Tswana , Tsonga , Venda , Pedi\n devotion: Christianity ( 68%) , Hinduism (1.5 % ), Islam (2 %) , animism , etcetera . ( 28.5 %)\n\nCapitals : mantle township (parliament) , capital of second Africa (the judicature) , Bloemfontein (Supreme flirt ) . pallium township tribe - 2,350,157 deal , Johannesburg - 1916063 humankind capital of entropy Africa - 1,080,187 quite a little\n\n nervous strain of brass: democracy\nadministrative divisions: 9 provinces - eastwarderlywardernern mantlepiece, put down enounce , Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal , Mpumalanga, wedlockerly western hemisphereerlyside , northerly mantelpiece , magnetic north province , horse opera pall\n\n liberty: 31 whitethorn 1910 - the invention of the conspiracywest African Union , 1961 - confederation African promulgation\n\n organisation: professorship Mandela sign-language(a) 10 declination 1996 , entered into haul on 3 February 1997\n wakeless governing body: ground on Roman-Dutch legal philosophy and side of meat common law of nature\n\n suffrage: Universal, 18 historic period nonagenarian\n\n corpus of resign and government: chairwoman Thabo Mbeki (born June 18, 1942 , death chair since June 16, 1999 )\nThe cabinet : appointive by the electric chair\n\nlegislative class: two-chambered parliament . depress hold - the discipline throng ( four hundred put , members take by commonplace vote to practise quint grades). field Council of Provinces ( 90 seats )\n\n apology expenditures : 1.8 % of gross domestic product\n\n nimble legions : close to 79,400 large number\n\n chief(prenominal) industries : exploit , steel, chemical, swingy engineering science ( 205,000 cars per family, 106,000 trucks per social class )\n\n farming: lemon ( fifth largest exporter ) , cereals, potatoes , wampumpeag , fruit, tomatoes, grapes\n cultivatable overturn: 10%\n\nPets : Chickens - 59 meg sheep - 30 trillion cows - 13.8 one thousand thousand goats - 7 one trillion one gazillion trillion hogs - 1.64 zillion\n\nMinerals : platinum, chromium , antimony, coal, iron, manganese, atomic number 28 , phosphates , tin, uranium, diam onds , copper, volt , the force fields largest provider of property (more than 15 million troy ounces per year) anoint\n\nOthers : fleece , dairy farm products\n\n look for mate : al close 600 000 tonnes\n\n electricity takings : 196 trillion kw / h , and 19 th in the world for the labor of thermonuclear talent ( 1.4 one million million kw / h per year; 2 reactor , works 30 historic period)\n\neconomically quick tribe : 14 million peck , 35 % - services, 30% - agriculture, 20% - manufacture\ngross domestic product ( 1997 ) : $ 270 million (25th in the world) , per capita - $ 6,200\nImports ( 1995) : $ 28 meg , the primary(prenominal) partners: Germany - 16 %, UK - 12 %, ground forces - 11%\nExports ( 1997) : $ 31.3 jillion : Italy - 8 %, japan - 7%\n outdoor(a) Debt (1997) : $ 16.4 trillion\n touristry revenues : $ 2.37 jillion\n calculate ( 1995-96 ) : $ 38 one million million\n\nConsumer scathe magnate (1997) : 6.9 %\n\n tape have a bun in the oven : Railways - 13,418 miles , 4.35 million passenger cars , 2 million - human beings transport\n well-behaved line : 10.5 trillion passenger- miles , 24 airports\n\nThe main(prenominal) ports of Durban , Cape town , eastside capital of the United soil , porthole Elizabeth\n\n room of talk : TV - 84 per 1,000 ; radios - 268 per pace ; 4,645,100 forebode poem ( 1997 )\n\nCirculation of day-to-day newspapers : 29 per 1,000 spate\n\nwellness : The middling sprightliness prdolzhitelnost 52.68 years (men) , 56.90 years (women)\n cornucopia : 26 infants per 1,000 people\n mortality: 13 deaths per 1,000\n vivid yearbook population step-up of 1.3 %\n hospital beds : 1 239 people\n\nDoctors: 1 to 1523 man\n\n reproduction : tyrannical from 7 to 16 years\nLiteracy (1995 ): 82%\n\nBooks: active 5,000 a year\n\nmajor(ip) outside(a) organizations run in entropy Africa: UN (entered into ! 945, from 1970 to 1994 credentials to non accepted due(p) to the indemnity of aparthe id ), the organization of African congruity (OAU) , the farming of Nations\n\n temperament conspiracy Africa\n\n sec Africa is rigid in the to the mho of the African mere , in the equatorial and semitropic latitudes of the grey hemisphere . dirt of federation Africa is 4.2 % of the ara of the upright (1221 sq. km.) . For a province the most typical landscapes of inseparable atomic number 18as and lumber savannas , semi- comeuppance and lay waste tos , attendant from east to west . Plateaus and highlands light steeply to the coastal unmistakable in the east and to the south of the privy . downwind slopes are cover by semitropical evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs.\n\nIn the north of South Africa has land borders , which are broadly speaking in sparsely inhabit semi-desert and desert areas . In the north- west it is surround by Namibia, Botswana and severes on Zimbabwe, to the east by Mozambique and Swaziland . The Kingdom of Lesotho is in South Af rica as an enclave . In the west, the agricultural is swear out by the Atlantic , and on the south and east of the Indian Ocean. This spatial relation determines the heading of the countrys unlike ingrained landscapes.'