South Africa

In 1652, the Dutch East India Company made land in South Africa to build supply base. They developed a vegetable garden for the benefit of the Eastern trade route. Then they made the Cape Colony.

England occupied twice, because they were afraid that Cape Colony would be taken by France.

1910: South Africa independented.


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Basic info About South Africa

South Africa is located at the extreme south of the African Continent.
It borders on Namibia on the northwest side, Botswana and Zimbabwe on the north side, Mozambique and Swaziland on the northeast side, and there is Lesotho on the east South Africa.

The area of South Africa is about 122 million square kilometers which is 3.2 times as large as Japan. It’s about 870 miles away from Japan, and it takes you about 20 hours to fly over there. The time difference between South Africa and Japan is seven hours.

There are nine provinces in South Africa. From the west, they are West Cape, South Cape, East Cape, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, NorthWest, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and Linpopo.

The administrative capital city is Pretoria in Gauteng, the legislative one is Cape Town, and judicial one is Bloemfontein. Above all, Cape Town is really popular for tourists. It’s called mother city. They have so many highlight as gorgeous resort beach, the Cape of Good Hope or the Table Mountain. At night, night view from the signal hill is among the three best night view spots in the worlds. Also they have so many venerable buildings and museums that you can see valuable materials.

The population is about 4,760, and 79% black, 9.6% white divided British origin and Afrikaner, 8.9% mixed-race, and 2.5% Asian live there. 80% of them are Christian, and others are Hindu, Islam. There are few Judaism and non religions.

South African flag uses six colors. It explains African traditional and history. They red for blood streamed from past rivalry, blue for sky and sea, green for agriculture and nature which is necessary in South Africa, yellow for natural resources as gold, black for African American, and white for white people or peace. The flag of the African National Congress use three colors which are black, yellow, and green. Other three colors which are red, blue and white are used for the flag of England and Holland.




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South Africa

I would write about South Africa.
I'm interested in their languages including English.
I heard that they have some English which is only used in South Africa.
That sounds quite interesting.