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South Africa is located at the southern end of the African Continent. It is bound by the Namibia to the northwest, Botswana to the north, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Swaziland to the northeast, the Indian Ocean to the east and southeast and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest and west. South Africa is a middle-income, emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that ranks among the 10 largest in the world.
Area: 1,219,912 sq km
Population: 44,187,637
Capital: Pretoria (administrative capital)
People: Black African 79%, White 9.6%, Colored 8.9%, Indian/Asian 2.5%
Language: 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%
Religion: Zion Christian 11.1%, Pentecostal/Charismatic 8.2%, Catholic 7.1%, Methodist 6.8%, Dutch Reformed 6.7%, Anglican 3.8%, Muslim 1.5%, other Christian 36%, other 2.3%, unspecified 1.4%, none 15.1%
Government: Republic
GDP: US$576.4 billion
Major Industries: Agriculture, chemicals, clothing, fishing, food processing, forestry, iron and steel, machinery, mining refining, petroleum refining, textiles, and tobacco products.
Major Trading Partners: Its main trading partners are the USA, Germany, Japan, the UK and France.
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