South Africa - Ningizimu Afrika - Suid-Afrika - Afrika Borwa

South Africa is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded on the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline of Southern Africa stretching along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans, on the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, and on the east and northeast by Mozambique and Swaziland, and surrounding the kingdom of Lesotho. This capital is Pretoria.

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national symbolEdit

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  flag of South Africa
  1994-
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  1928-1994
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  1910-1928

map & satellite imageryEdit

Selected maps are included in the  Wikimedia Atlas of South Africa.

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  Location map for South Africa

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  CIA map of South Africa

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  Satellite image of Cape Peninsula

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  Composite satellite image of South Africa in November 2002

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  Map of Kwazulu-Natal province

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  Kwazulu-Natal (detail)

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  Provinces of South Africa

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  Hypsometrically tinted relief map of South Africa

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  Population density map of South Africa

panoramaEdit

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  Arniston shoreline

Historic picturesEdit

Main gallery: History of South Africa.