| Largest Cities |
| City |
Population |
Estimated |
| Cape Town |
2,686,000 |
2002 |
| Durban |
2,354,900 |
2002 |
| Johannesburg |
1,646,400 |
2002 |
Key Data |
| Region: |
Africa |
| Population: |
45,129,400 October 2002 |
| Area Total: |
1,219,912 km2 |
| Area Land: |
1,219,912 km2 |
| Coast Line: |
2,798 km km |
| Capital: |
Pretoria |
| Climate: |
Mostly semiarid; subtropical along
east coast; sunny days, cool nights. |
| Languages: |
Official Languages
Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana,
Venda, Xhosa and Zulu |
| Currency: |
1 rand (R$) = 100 cents |
| Holiday: |
Freedom Day, 27 April (1994) |
Average Daily Temperature |
| Capital: |
Pretoria |
| January: |
22°C / 71.6°F |
| July: |
11.3°C / 52.3°F |
| Annual Rainfall: |
704.1mm / 27.7'' |
Boundaries |
|
Botswana: |
1,840km |
|
Lesotho: |
909km |
|
Namibia: |
855km |
|
Mozambique: |
491km |
|
Swaziland: |
430km |
|
Zimbabwe: |
225km |
|
Ethnic Divisions |
| Indigenous African |
75% |
| European |
14% |
| Mixed |
9% |
| South Asian Indian |
3% |
Religions |
| Christian |
68% |
| indigenous beliefs and animist |
28% |
| Muslim |
2% |
| Hindu |
2% |
|
