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South Africa is one of the few nations in the world where the functions of its capital is divided between three cities. Pretoria is South Africa’s official capital with an estimated 1 million population, with Cape Town (2.9 million) the legislative and Bloemfontein (369,568) the judicial capitals. However, the largest city is Johannesburg with 3.2 million inhabitants.

Borders:

Botswana 1,840 km, Lesotho 909 km, Mozambique 491 km, Namibia 967 km, Swaziland 430 km, Zimbabwe 225 km

Population:

49,004,031

GDP per capita:

$10,551.84 per capita

Capital with population:

Pretoria (official) - est. 1,000,000; Cape Town (legislative) - 2,893,251; Bloemfontein (judicial) - 369,568

Largest city with population:

Johannesburg - 3,225,812

Alternative names:

South Africa, Republic of South Africa, rep. of s. africa, , SAFRICA


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anonymus
7th September 2011
Thanks a million this information was really useful!
matt
26th September 2010
Fudge the government!! they made AIDS I know they did. Now my foreign brothers have to struggle.
Antwi Ebenezer
23rd September 2010
Area code of south Africa
Ajp
15th September 2010
Patrick do you even live in South Africa?!?! I don't think you should be making such racist and ignorant comments like that. Whites ran our country for how many years and look what they did. Don't you dare dis great leaders like Nelson Mandela.
John EONGA BOTUWA
6th September 2010
Aahooiye hoi hoi hoi
Patrick Walsh
7th August 2010
Blacks can't run a neighborhood let alone running a country. They have failed badly. Let China or Japan run South Africa.
Ezme Hermsen
29th June 2010
Hiya
Pease mail me if you hear anything about the 12th July 2010. I pray for you all.
Jan
11th June 2010
Hi Guys, its only the beginning of the end. The white people of South Africa can only take so much. I feel sorry for those that think the country is going to get better under the ANC (cause that's not going to happen)! The end to the ANC is a lot closer than what we think.....!

l
2nd June 2010
Hi people
Thandekile Langa 2010
2nd March 2010
crime plays a very vital role in south africa one would even think its part of our existing cultures or believes,well i would suggest that our communities take a lead and leave a mark of being responsible citizens of the republic of south africa.
joe thompson
1st March 2010
i think what happened in apartheid should never happen again because what they did to the black people wasn't right they treated them like farm animals and made sure that they never had good education and made it hard for them to become something in life.
sp
5th February 2010
Crime is not relative, and it is not a weakness, it is a fatal disability. I am an American who lives in South Africa and the crime is killing the country, literally.
pistol
14th October 2009
South Africa is lying about the current crime stats. They are afraid to reveal the true stats because of 2010. WAKE UP AND SEE THE TRUTH THE WRONG PEOPLE ARE IN POWER!
Alain Latham
18th August 2009
I am from Durban on South Africa's east coast. It is a virtual paradise, where summer literally never ends... if it wasn't for crime. there is an interesting website to visit regarding crime and Durban. It's www.berea3.co.za. It has all sorts of crime related topics, advice articles, links and blogs... well worth a visit.
David Carte
16th June 2009
Basic information on SA is available on government websites such as www.dti.gov.za, www.css.gov.za and www.gcis.gov.za.
N!cky
23rd May 2009
OMW...I have searched for SA crime rate graphs and found none. I would dearly appreciate it if you could add some crime stats to your site.
George Clooney
18th May 2009
I would like to see statistics of how many people immigrated from SA each year
Alex
20th April 2009
I wonder what the annual precipitation graphis?
Astelle
17th April 2009
It's all relative. South Africa, like any other country has it's strengths and weaknesses.
Asher
8th February 2006
Why don't you show what type of economy each country has on it's page?
Gerardo Cantu Perez-Maldonado]
5th January 2006
Is there any information on the current position of South Africa on the violation of sovereignty... let's recall it once violated some other country's sovereignty in the 80s
Jessica
7th November 2005
A list of Facts that are going on currently would be nice as well...
Richard
21st June 2005
Please, can I have a list of the religions in South Africa?
Gerorge and Andrew
29th May 2005
This site is good, but we were wondering if you have bar graphs comparing countries against global GDP.
ladizir@hotmail.com
16th December 2004
Dear Sirs,
I would like to draw your attention to the following:
When we point with the "little hand" on the map of Dominican Republic, we can read "Dominica", that is not correct. It should be " Dominican Republic". As you are aware, Dominica is a little island between Guadalupe and Martinica.
Congratulations for your excelent site.
Best regards.
Olavo Rasquinho (Meteorological consultant)
olavo.rasquinho@zmail.pt
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