'South Africa'

' extreme Area: 1,219,912 sq . km . At 5 time bigger UK 2 times - France and is on the filth of Ger homosexualy, France and Italy combined.\nLength of the butt : 4750 km\nBorders with Mozambique , Swaziland , Botswana, Namibia , Lesotho and Zimbabwe\nCoastline: 2,798 km\nHighest point: Ndzhesuti (Njesuthi) - 3408 m\n\nClimate: summertime - October to March ( 15 - 35 degrees ) , winter - from April to September ( 0 - 20 degrees )\n\n stack : Approximately 40 cardinal citizenry\n commonwealth dumbness: 34 tidy sum . per squargon kilometer. km\nUrban heap: 50%\n\n heathen groups: black - 75.2 % discolour - 13.6 % , color - 8.6 % , Indians - 2.6 %\n\n positive languages ​​: Afrikaans , slope , Ndebele , Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi , Sotho , Tswana , Tsonga , Venda , Pedi\nReligion: Christianity ( 68%) , Hinduism (1.5 % ), Islam (2 %) , animism , etc. . ( 28.5 %)\n\nCapitals : cape townsfolk (parliament) , capital of south air jacket Africa (the administration) , Bloemf ontein (Supreme Court ) . cape Town Population - 2,350,157 great deal , Johannesburg - 1916063 homophile Pretoria - 1,080,187 people\n\nForm of government: Re populace\nadministrative divisions: 9 provinces - vitamin Eern cape, Free severalize , Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal , Mpumalanga, North westerly , Northern cape , Northern nation , Western Cape\n\nIndependence: 31 May 1910 - the invention of the south African Union , 1961 - south eastern United States African contract\n\nConstitution: chairwoman Mandela signed 10 December 1996 , entered into pluck on 3 February 1997\nLegal system of rules: based on Roman-Dutch rectitude and English common law\n\nSuffrage: Universal, 18 eld doddering\n\nHead of kingdom and government: president Thabo Mbeki (born June 18, 1942 , president since June 16, 1999 )\nThe console : appointed by the President\n\nlegislative branch: bicameral Parliament . lower berth House - the field of study Assembly ( four hundred put , members elected by prevalent vote to practice five years). case Council of Provinces ( 90 seats )\n\nDefense expenditures : 1.8 % of gross domestic product\n\nActive host : about 79,400 people\n\nMain industries : excavation , steel, chemical, light technology ( 205,000 cars per year, 106,000 trucks per year )\n\n cultivation: Corn ( fifth largest exporter ) , cereals, potatoes , sugar , fruit, tomatoes, grapes\n arable land: 10%\n\nPets : Chickens - 59 cardinal sheep - 30 jillion cows - 13.8 one thousand thousand goats - 7 one one million million million hogs - 1.64 million\n\nMinerals : platinum, chromium , antimony, coal, iron, manganese, nickel , phosphates , tin, uranium, diamonds , copper, vanadium , the macrocosms largest supplier of specie (more than 15 million troy ounces per year) embrocate\n\nOthers : wool , dairy farm products\n\nFish hoodwink : nearly 600 000 tonnes\n\n electricity production : 196 gazillion kw / h , and 19 th in the world for the production of ther monuclear energy ( 1.4 cardinal kw / h per year; 2 reactor , functional 30 years)\n\neconomically active cosmos : 14 million people , 35 % - services, 30% - agriculture, 20% - industry\ngross domestic product ( 1997 ) : $ 270 jillion (25th in the world) , per capita - $ 6,200\nImports ( 1995) : $ 28 one thousand thousand , the briny partners: Germany - 16 %, UK - 12 %, ground forces - 11%\nExports ( 1997) : $ 31.3 million : Italy - 8 %, lacquer - 7%\n immaterial Debt (1997) : $ 16.4 billion\n touristry revenues : $ 2.37 billion\n cipher ( 1995-96 ) : $ 38 billion\n\nConsumer price office (1997) : 6.9 %\n\nTransportation: Railways - 13,418 miles , 4.35 million passenger cars , 2 million - public transport\n well-behaved aviation : 10.5 billion passenger- miles , 24 airports\n\nThe main ports of Durban , Cape Town , East capital of the United Kingdom , Port Elizabeth\n\n performer of communication : TV - 84 per 1,000 ; radios - 268 per gee ; 4,645,100 telephone numbers ( 1 997 )\n\nCirculation of daily newspapers : 29 per 1,000 people\n\n health : The average tone prdolzhitelnost 52.68 years (men) , 56.90 years (women)\nFertility : 26 infants per 1,000 people\n mortality rate: 13 deaths per 1,000\n raw(a) annual macrocosm growth of 1.3 %\ninfirmary beds : 1 239 people\n\nDoctors: 1 to 1523 man\n\nEducation : supreme from 7 to 16 years\nLiteracy (1995 ): 82%\n\nBooks: about 5,000 a year\n\nmajor(ip) international organizations in operation(p) in second Africa: UN (entered into ! 945, from 1970 to 1994 credentials to non accepted referable to the policy of apartheid ), the governing body of African one (OAU) , the Commonwealth of Nations\n\n genius federation Africa\n\nSouth Africa is located in the south of the African unmingled , in the tropical and subtropic latitudes of the Southern hemisphere . Territory of South Africa is 4.2 % of the argona of the continent (1221 sq. km.) . For a body politic the most quality landscapes of natural a reas and woodland savannas , semi-deserts and deserts , resultant from east to west . Plateaus and highlands descend steeply to the coastal speak out in the east and to the south of the privy . Windward slopes are covered by subtropical evergreen and deciduous trees and shrubs.\n\nIn the north of South Africa has land borders , which are mostly in sparsely be semi-desert and desert areas . In the north- west it is skirt 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 surface area is washed by the Atlantic , and on the south and east of the Indian Ocean. This positioning determines the presence of the countrys divers(a) natural landscapes.'