South Africa - Characteristic

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- Capital: Pretoria (executvie), Bloemfontein (judical), Cape Town (leigslative)

- Largest city: Johannesburg

- Independence: 31 May 1910

- Offical languages: 11 languages (Zulu 23,8%, Xhosa 17,6%, Afrikaans 13,3%, Pedi 9,4%, Englisch 8,2%, Setswana 8,2%, Nord-/Südsotho 7,9%, Tsonga 4,2%, Swati, Venda and Ndebele)

- Area: 1.221.037 km²

- Population: 54.000.000

- Form of government: Parliamentary republic

- Currency: Rand & cents (1 Rand = 100 Cent = 0.105 CHF)

- Average age: 25 (male: 24.7 / 25.3 female)

- Climate: Mostly semiarid climate, subtropical along the southeast coast

- Religions: Christian 80%, Muslim 2%, other or non-religious 18%

- Ethinc groups: 79,2% Black African / 8,9% Coloured / 8,9% White / 2,5% Indian or Asien / 0,5% other

- Economy: Services: 65,5%, Industry: 31,3%, Agriculture: 3,2%