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 South Africa 
 Main prefix
 ZS 
 Callsigns series
 S8A-S8Z, ZRA-ZUZ 
 Time zone
 +2 h 
 Continent
 Africa 
 ITU zone
 57 
 CQ zone
 38 
 Metropole
 
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 Flag description 
Two equal width horizontal bands of red (top) and blue separated by a central green band which splits into a horizontal Y, the arms of which end at the corners of the hoist side; the Y embraces a black isosceles triangle from which the arms are separated by narrow yellow bands; the red and blue bands are separated from the green band and its arms by narrow white stripes.
 
          South Africa          
 
 South Africa 
 Capital: 
Pretoria
Cape Town is the legislative center and Bloemfontein the judicial center
 Administrative
 divisions: 
9 provinces: Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, North-West, Northern Cape, and Western Cape.
 Population: 
43,647,658 (July 2002 est.)
South Africa took a census October 1996 that showed a population of 40,583,611 (after an official adjustment for a 6.8% underenumeration based on a postenumeration survey), 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
 Languages: 
11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
 Geographic
 coordinates: 
29° 00' S, 24° 00' E
 Area total: 
1,219,912 sq. km
includes Prince Edward Islands (Marion Island and Prince Edward Island)
 Land area: 
1,219,912 sq. km
 Water area: 
0 sq. km
 Total land
 boundaries: 
4,862 km
 Borders
 with neighbor
 countries: 
Botswana 1,840 km, Lesotho 909 km, Mozambique 491 km, Namibia 967 km, Swaziland 430 km, Zimbabwe 225 km
 Coastline: 
2,798 km
 Elevation
 extremes: 
Atlantic Ocean 0 m - Njesuthi 3,408 m
 Internet
 country code: 
.za
 Currency: 
rand (ZAR)
 Name -
 abbreviation: 
RSA
 Name -
 conventional
 long form: 
Republic of South Africa
 Name -
 conventional
 short form: 
South Africa
 Former name: 
Union of South Africa
 Independence: 
31 May 1910 (from UK)
 Constitution: 
10 December 1996, this new constitution was certified by the Constitutional Court on 4 December 1996, was signed by then President MANDELA on 10 December 1996, and entered into effect on 3 February 1997, it is being implemented in phases
 Government
 type: 
republic
 National
 holiday: 
Freedom Day, 27 April (1994)
 
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