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- Capital
- Pretoria (administrative capital)
- Population
- 44,187,637
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects
of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy,
higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth
rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than
would otherwise be expected (July 2006 est.) - Area
- total: 1,219,912 sq km
land: 1,219,912 sq km
water: 0 sq km
slightly less than twice the size of Texas - Government
- republic
- Money
- rand (ZAR)
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- Climate
- mostly semiarid;
- subtropical along east coast;
- sunny days, cool nights
- Languages
- IsiZulu 23.8%
- IsiXhosa 17.6%
- Afrikaans 13.3%
- Sepedi 9.4%
English 8.2% - Setswana 8.2%
- Sesotho 7.9%
- Xitsonga 4.4%
- other 7.2% (2001 census)
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