COMMERCE 1E03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Gazetteer, United Nations Statistics Division, United Nations Development Programme
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The name of the country is south africa; its capital city is pretoria. 1. The population of south africa is 42 768 678 citizens. 2. South africa consists of nine provinces: eastern cape, free state, gauteng, kwazulu-natal, Limpopo, mpumalanga, north-west, northern cape, and western cape. 3. The four largest cities are cape town, durban, johannesburg, and pretoria. 2. 9 million, 2. 5 million, 1. 9 million, and 1. 5 million respectively. 4. The currency used is the rand (r), which is represented by the code zar. 6. The age structure, based on the groupings of 0- 14 years, 15 - 64 years, and 65 years and over, is. 30%, 65%, and 5% respectively, which is shown in appendix a. 7. According to the human development indicators in 2002, south africa"s world ranking based on standard of living was 107. 8. There are 11 official languages of south africa: afrikaans, english, ndebele, pedi, sotho, swazi,