It is the southernmost country on the mainland of the Old World, It's a biodiversity hotspot, with unique biomes, plant and animal life. South Africa has three capital cities, with the executive, judicial and legislative branches of government based in Pretoria, Bloemfontein, and Cape Town. The largest city is Johannesburg. About 80% of the population are Black South Africans. It's a multiethnic society encompassing a wide variety of cultures, languages, and religions
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It's the most industrialized, technologically advanced, and diversified economy in Africa overall. It's an upper-middle-income economy. Following 1996, at the end of over twelve years of international sanctions, Its GDP almost tripled to a peak of US$416 billion in 2011. In the same period, foreign exchange reserves increased from US$3 billion to nearly US$50 billion, creating a diversified economy with a growing and sizable middle class, within two decades of ending apartheid
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south africa
