GDP Official Exchange Rate (OER is more precise at gauging a countries economic power)
(Estimated 2011): $408.1 billion (US$) or (GBP)
GDP (OER) Per Capita (per member of the population estimated 2011): (US$) or (GBP)
GDP Purchasing Power Parity (PPP is good for gauging living conditions and use of resources but not as accurate as OER. This data has been calculated based on the sum value of all goods and services produced in the country valued at prices prevailing in the United States)
(Estimated 2011): $562.2 billion (US$) or (GBP)
GDP (PPP) Per Capita (per member of the population estimated 2011): $11,100 (US$) or (GBP)
Capital: Pretoria (Administrative); Bloemfontein (judicial); Cape Town (legislative)
Population (Estimated July 2012): 48,810,427
Area: 1,220,813km2 or 471,359mi2
Currency: Rand (R)
Official Languages: IsiZulu 23.82%, IsiXhosa 17.64%, Afrikaans 13.35%, Sepedi 9.39%, English 8.2%, Setswana 8.2%, Sesotho 7.93%, Xitsonga 4.44%, siSwati 2.66%, Tshivenda 2.28%, isiNdebele 1.59%
Political Information: Parliamentary Republic
Official Religion: No Official Religion
(approximately 36.6% of the population are Protestant, 7.1% are Roman Catholic, 36% have other Christian beliefs, 5.2% have other or unspecified religious beliefs and 15.1% have no religious beliefs)
Highest Mountain: Mafadi Mountain at 3,450m or 11,319ft
Largest River:
Time Zone (GMT/UTC): +2:00
Wildlife:
Counties/Provinces/States: 9 provinces; Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North-West, Western Cape
Leaders: President Jacob Zuma; Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe
Additional: The union of South Africa formed from four British colonies: Cape Colony, Natal, Transvaal, and Orange Free State on the 31st of May 1910.
Sources: CIA World Fact Book, and Encyclopaedia Britannica.
South Africa (Republic of South Africa)
