This is South Africa!

South Africa is located at the southern tip of Africa and the coastline is almost 3000 kilometers. It lives 44.8 million peoples in South Africa. The country is divided in 9 provinces, and the province Gauteng has the largest city Johannesburg with more than 11 million inhabitants. South Africa has 3 capitals. Pretoria is located in the northern part of the country, and is the executive (administrative) capital. Bloemfontein is a quite small city and is the judical capital of the nation. Cape Town is the provincial capital and the National Parliament is also located in that city.

South Africa is one of the best organized countries in Africa, with prety good technology and economy. However, a quarter of the population lives on less than 1.25$ a day. In South Africa they have 11 official languages. The name of the president is Jacob Zuma. He was born in 1942, and today he is leader of the party African National Congress (ANC).

There are many ethnic groups in South Africa, and 79.5 % are  blacks, 9 % are whites, 9.0 % are coloured and 2.5 % are Asian. The reason of why there are so many whites is because of the colonization. South Africa is today independent from United Kingdom.

In the western regions there are Mediterranean climate. In the east, there are both wet and dry periods. Over all, in South Africa there are hot summers with thunderstorms from November to March. The cooler, dry and sunny winter season is from June to September. The dry season lasts from April to October. The average high temperature through the whole year is 22 degrees. In average they have more than 3000 sunshine hours every year.

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