South Africa

South Africa is a country in Southern Africa with about 64.7 million people, and its capital is Pretoria. Its system of government is a parliamentary republic. The main languages are Afrikaans, English, South Ndebele, Southern Sotho, Swati, Tswana, Tsonga, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu, and the currency is the South African Rand.

It covers 1,221,037 km², making it the 24th largest of the 197 countries here, and ranks 24th by population. That works out at 53 per km², 135th in the world for density. South Africa shares land borders with 6 countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Namibia, Eswatini and Zimbabwe.