Adulthood: 18
Annual per capita income: $US10,400 (2008 estimate); $13,300 (2016 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: 3.7% (2008); 0.3% (2016)
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); African 80.2%, white 8.4%, colored 8.8%, Indian/Asian 2.5% (2014 estimate)
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); 29,322,380 (2016)
Main export partners:
US 11.9%, Japan 11.1%, Germany 8%, UK 7.7%, China 6.6%, Netherlands
4.5% (2007 estimate); China 9.2%, Germany 7.5%, US 7.4%, Botswana 5%, Namibia 4.8%, Japan 4.6%, India 4.3%, UK 4.2% (2016 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); China 18.1%, Germany 11.8%, US 6.7%, India 4.2% (2016 estimate)
Military: voluntary military service
Mobile phones: 42.3 million (2007 estimate); 76,653,421 (2016 estimate)
National team uniform: green and yellow
Population density: 101 per square mile
Population: 48,782,756 (July 2008 estimate); 54,841,552 (July 2017 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); 26.7% (2016 estimate)
Video system: NTSC
Wettest month: June (in Cape Town); December (in Johannesburg)
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