Sudáfrica

Más allá de la capital, las principales ciudades son Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban — cada una un centro de cultura regional, economía e historia. South Africa has three capitals dividing legislative, executive and judicial functions between Pretoria, Cape Town and Bloemfontein — an arrangement dating from the compromises of the 1910 Act of Union — making Pretoria's Union Buildings, designed by Herbert Baker and set on an amphitheatre of terraced gardens, the seat of presidential power in a country that also holds parliamentary sessions 1,400 kilometres away.

El idioma oficial es 11 official languages, que refleja el patrimonio cultural del país y lo conecta con una amplia comunidad internacional. Internacionalmente, Sudáfrica se contacta mediante el código +27. South Africa's 11 official languages include Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans and eight others, and the country's negotiated transition from apartheid produced a constitutional architecture that the post-colonial world has studied as a model of managed transformation.

Sudáfrica comparte sus fronteras con Botswana, Esuatini, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Namibia. El tráfico rodado circula por la izquierda, en consonancia con la convención de

La vida económica y cotidiana se rige por la zona horaria de UTC+02:00, alineando el país con sus vecinos regionales.

The Springboks' 1995 Rugby World Cup victory on home soil, with Nelson Mandela presenting the trophy to captain Francois Pienaar wearing jersey number 6, was a moment of such calculated symbolic weight — Mandela had worn the same jersey — that it was credited with temporarily unifying a country still raw from apartheid.

The Cape Floristic Region around the Western Cape is one of six global floral kingdoms and the smallest, yet contains over 9,000 plant species — more per square kilometre than the Amazon — including fynbos, a shrubland that requires periodic fire to regenerate and exists nowhere else on Earth.