We have learned about our wonderful country before. And a lot of people across the world knows certain facts about South Africa or reasons why they would want to visit the country, how we struggle with crime and AIDS and poverty. That racism still pops up every now and then, that we have wonderful heroes like Madiba and Desmond Tutu, FW de Klerk and thousands before them that brought the country to where it is.
Read here for some more reasons why we are so proud or our country.
The whole world knows that the world soccer cup was hosted here in 2010 and it was a huge success and also that a lot of our athletes can compete with the world's best.
There are some other facts that you and other people must know about our beautiful country and our little piece under the sun. If you know these, you can tell other people these interesting facts and you will be able to speak about your country.
Our coastline is more than 3 000 km long and stretches from the Orange river at Namibia to the Limpopo river at the border of Mozambique.
Our countries has an area of 1219.912 square kilometers, which means it is five times bigger than England.
We have a population of more than 46 million people and our rainbow nation consist of 79% black people, 8% colored people and 2.5% Indian people and 9.6% white people.
Our cultural diversity is reflected in our languages spoken. We have 11 official languages, Zulu, Xhosa, Afrikaans and English are spoken by most of the population.
You can have a look here at the different languages and how many people speaks it.
The Orange river is the longest river in our land and is about 2 340 km and goes through most of the country and the highest mountain peak is at Injisuthi in the Drakensberg and is 3 482 m above sea level.
We have 9 provinces in our country and most of the population live in Kwazulu Natal, then Gauteng, Limpopo, Western Cape and Northern Cape.
Our climate is determined by two weather patterns. A high pressure and low pressure system or warm and cold fronts. We have two currents along our coastline that makes the sea water warm or cold. They are the cold Benquela current from Antarctica and the warm Agulhas current from the tropics.
You can read some more interesting facts on this beautiful country here.
