South Africa occupies the southern tip of Africa and is bathed by the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian. It borders with Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia.
The environmental conditions determine zoene low density in the arid north and west, while the central part and the plateau areas of fertile Kwazulu-Natal are more intensely populated.
The urban heart of the country is the metropolitan area that PWV (Pretoria, Witwatersrand, Vereeniging) which concentrates more than 7 million inhabitants. The main city of South Africa is Johannesburg and then Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban, Bloemfontein, Porth Elizabeth, East London, Kimberly
Capital: Cape Town
Area: 1.219.090 Km²
Institution: Republic
Language: Afrikaans english
Currency: South African rand
Religion: Christian
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