Southern Africa
South Africa
Republic of South Africa
Core facts
- Capital
- Pretoria
- Population
- 63,100,945
- Area
- 1,221,037 km^2
- Country code
- ZAF
- Flag emoji
- 🇿🇦
- UN member
- Yes
- Independent
- Yes
- Population density
- 51.7 per km^2
- Calling code
- +27
Culture and society
- Languages
- Afrikaans, English, Southern Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Swazi, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
- Religions
- Christianity (79.0%), Unaffiliated (15.0%), Islam (2.0%), Other religions (2.0%), Hinduism (100.0%), Folk religions (100.0%)
- Native names
- South Africa, Sewula Afrika, Afrika-Borwa, Afrika Borwa, Ningizimu Afrika, Aforika Borwa, Afrika Dzonga, Afurika Tshipembe, Mzantsi Afrika
- Demonyms (EN)
- South African / South African
- Start of week
- monday
- Driving side
- left
- Timezones
- UTC+02:00
- Alternative spellings
- ZA, RSA, Suid-Afrika, Republic of South Africa
Geography and map
- Continents
- Africa
- Coordinates
- -29.00, 24.00
- Landlocked
- No
- Borders
- BWA, LSO, MOZ, NAM, SWZ, ZWE
- Border countries count
- 6
Economy and identity
- Currencies
- South African rand (R)
- Top-level domain
- .za
- FIFA code
- RSA
- Capital coordinates
- -25.70, 28.22
- Postal code format
- ####
- Gini index
- 63 (2014)
- Coat of arms
