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South Africa Travel: Facts & Figures

Adulthood: 18

Annual per capita income: $US10,400 (2008 estimate)

Area: 1,219,912 square km

Biggest City: Johannesburg

Capital: Pretoria

Cars: 44.7 million

Currency: Rand (ZAR)

Driving: On the left

Drugs: All illicit drugs still criminalized; fines/and or imprisonment for possession.

Economic growth in 2008: 3.7%

Economic output: South Africa is an emergency economy with rich natural resources.

Electricity: 220/230 AC, 50 cycles

Ethnic groups: Black African 79%, white 9.6%, colored 8.9%, Indian/Asian 2.5% (2001 census).

Football Association: SAFA, South African Football Association

Football League: Premier Soccer League

Government: parliamentary democracy

Highest Mountain: Njesuthi 3408m

International access code: +27

Internet country code: .za

Internet users: 5.1 million (2005)

Main export partners:
US 11.9%, Japan 11.1%, Germany 8%, UK 7.7%, China 6.6%, Netherlands 4.5% (2007 estimate)

Main imports partners:
Germany 10.9%, China 10%, Spain 8.2%, US 7.2%, Japan 6.1%, UK 4.5%, Saudi Arabia 4.2% (2007 estimate)

Military: voluntary military service

Mobile phones: 42.3 million (2007 estimate)

National team uniform: green and yellow

Population density: 101 per square mile

Population: 48,782,756 (July 2008 estimate)

Principal cities & populations:
Cape Town 2,400,000
Durban 2,117,650
Johannesburg 1,148,000
Pretoria 1,104,479
Soweto 1,098,094
Port Elizabeth 749,921
Pietermaritzburg 378,126

Pro soccer teams: 16 teams in the top division

Ruling party: African National Congress (ANC)

Stock market: Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)

Time: South African Standard Time Zone, or SAST; UTC/GMT+2 hours

Tourism: (visitors 2008): 974,975

Unemployment: 21.7% (2008 estimate)

Video system: NTSC

Wettest month: June (in Cape Town); December (in Johannesburg)

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