Country profile / ZA
South Africa
Republic of South Africa
Locally: Sewula Afrika · Afrika-Borwa · Afrika Borwa · Ningizimu Afrika · Aforika Borwa · Afrika Dzonga · Afurika Tshipembe · Mzantsi Afrika
Capital
Pretoria
Region
Africa
ISO
ZA
Local time in South Africa
live · IANAJohannesburg
Africa/Johannesburg
Reference ledger
A sense of scale
area percentileLarger than 90% of places in this atlas.
At 1,221,037 km², South Africa ranks 26 of 241 records by land area. This comparison uses the same bundled source for every profile, so the scale is internally consistent.
Land neighbors
6Field notes
2 notes“South Africa is the only country with three capital cities.”
02Table Mountain in Cape Town is one of the world's oldest mountains.
Use these identifiers accurately
The two-letter code ZA is the compact ISO identifier used in addresses, locale selectors, and many data feeds. The dialing prefix +27 belongs at the start of an international phone number. Time zone names such as Africa/Johannesburg should be preferred over a fixed UTC offset because they carry daylight-saving rules.
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