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| Administrative Capital: |
Pretoria |
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Currency: |
Rand (ZAR) |
| Legislative Capital: |
Cape Town |
Country Code: |
ZA |
| Judicial Capital: |
Bloemfontein |
GDP per capita: |
R 19,781 (1999) |
| Area: |
1,219,912 km² |
Inflation rate: |
4.2% (2000 est.) |
| Boundaries:
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Botswana 1,840 km
Lesotho 909 km
Mozambique 491 km
Namibia 855 km
Swaziland 430 km
Zimbabwe 225 km |
Growth Rate: |
3.5% (2000 est.) |
| Total Population: |
44,328,322 (2000 est.) |
| Head of State: |
President Thabo Mbeki |
| Official Languages (11): |
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Ethnicity: |
| Afrikaans: |
15% |
Asian: |
2.6% |
| English |
8.6% |
Black: |
75.2% |
| Ndebele: |
1.5% |
Coloured (Mixed): |
8.6% |
| Pedi: |
8.9% |
White: |
13.6% |
| Sotho: |
6.9% |
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| Swati: |
2.6% |
Religion: |
| Tsonga: |
4.2% |
Christian: |
75.49% |
| Tswana: |
7.2% |
Hindu: |
1.35% |
| Venda: |
1.7% |
Judaist: |
0.17% |
| Xhosa: |
17.5% |
Muslim: |
1.39% |
| Zulu: |
22.4% |
Other: |
21.6% |
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