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Country (long form)	Republic of South Africa
Capital	Pretoria; note - Cape Town is the legislative center and Bloemfontein the judicial center
Total Area	471,010.66 sq mi 1,219,912.00 sq km (slightly less than twice the size of Texas)
Population	43,586,097 (July 2001 est.) note: South Africa took a census October 1996 which showed a population of 40,583,611 (after an official adjustment for a 6.8% underenumeration based on a postenumeration survey); estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected
Estimated Population in 2050	32,538,704
Languages	11 official languages, including Afrikaans, English, Ndebele, Pedi, Sotho, Swazi, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu
Literacy	81.8% total, 81.9% male, 81.7% female (1995 est.)
Religions	Christian 68% (includes most whites and Coloreds, about 60% of blacks and about 40% of Indians), Muslim 2%, Hindu 1.5% (60% of Indians), indigenous beliefs and animist 28.5%
Life Expectancy	47.64 male, 48.56 female (2001 est.)
Government Type	republic
Currency	1 rand (R) = 100 cents
GDP (per capita)	$8,500 (2000 est.)
Industry	mining (world's largest producer of platinum, gold, chromium), automobile assembly, metalworking, machinery, textile, iron and steel, chemicals, fertilizer, foodstuffs
Agriculture	corn, wheat, sugarcane, fruits, vegetables; beef, poultry, mutton, wool, dairy products
Arable Land	10%
Natural Resources	gold, chromium, antimony, coal, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, tin, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium, salt, natural gas