South Africa

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INFORMATION

Capital: Pretoria (executive), Cape Town (legislative), Bloemfontein (judicial) Government: Unitary Parliamentary Constitutional Republic Current President: Cyril Ramaphosa Economy:

Emerging market with an abundant supply of natural resources; well-developed financial, legal, communications, energy, and transport sectors; a stock exchange that is the 18th largest in the world; and modern infrastructure supporting a relative efficient distribution of goods to major urban centers throughout the region.

Population: 56,978,635 (July 2021 est.) Land Size: 1.22 million sq km (470,693 sq miles) Major Ethnic Groups:

African: 80.2%
- Zulu
- Xhosa
- Sotho
- Tswana
- Venda
- Tsonga
Coloured: 8.8%
White: 8.4%
Indian/Asian: 2.5%

Religions:

Protestant: 36.6% (Zionist Christian: 11.1%, Pentecostal/Charismatic: 8.2%, Methodist: 6.8%, Dutch Reformed: 6.7%, Anglican: 3.8%)
Catholic: 7.1%
Muslim: 1.5%
Other Christian: 36%
Other: 2.3%
- Indigenous African Religions
- Hinduism
- Judaism
Unspecified: 1.4%
None: 15.1%

Language(s):

IsiZulu (official): 23.82%
IsiXhosa (official): 17.64%
Afrikaans (official): 13.35%
Sepedi (official): 9.39%
English (official): 8.2%
Setswana (official): 8.2%
Sesotho (official): 7.93%
Xitsonga (official): 4.44%
siSwati (official): 2.66%
Tshivenda (official): 2.28%
isiNdebele (official): 1.59%
Other: 0.5%

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