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South Africa, Republic of, republic and southernmost country of continental Africa, bordered on the north-west by Namibia; on the north by Botswana and Zimbabwe; on the north-east by Mozambique and Swaziland; on the east and south by the Indian Ocean; and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
Capital - Pretoria
Population - 42,327,458
Ethnic Groups - 75.2%Black African, 13.6%White, 8.6%Coloured (mixed race), 2.6%Asian
Languages - Afrikaans, Tsonga, English, Ndebele, Sesotho, Sesotho sa Lebowa,Swazi, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
Religions - 17%Traditional African religions, 16%Dutch Reformed Protestantism, 13%African Christianity, 11%Methodism, 9%Roman Catholicism, 7%Anglicanism
Standard Time - 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT+2)

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