CAPITAL Pretoria (administrative), Bloemfontein (judicial), Cape Town (legislative)
POPULATION 49,052,489
AREA 1,219,090 sq km
LANGUAGES Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans, Sepedi, English, Tswana, Sesotho, Tsonga, Swati, Venda & Ndebele
CURRENCY South African Rand (ZAR)
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- 3 star hotel: $80
- 4 star hotel: $100
- 5 star hotel: $220
- Inexpensive restaurant: $7.83
- Meal for 2, mid-range restaurant, 3 courses: $34.46
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- Beach
- Outdoor and Adventure
- Party
- Food and Drink
- Romance and Honeymoon
- Animal encounter
- Family
- Culture and Art
- Architecture and History
- Road trip
- Almost half of South Africa’s wealth is concentrated among just 10% of the population
- South Africa’s Shark Alley is nicknamed the ‘great white shark capital of the world’, and it’s one of the top commercial cage-diving destinations in the world
