United Nations member state
South Africa
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South Africa is included as a United Nations member state. In UN M49, its subregion is Southern Africa.
The capital recorded by the World Bank is Pretoria.
The midyear population estimate for 2025 is 64,747,319. Land area for 2023 is 1,213,090 km².
- Capital
- Pretoria
- Population
- 64,747,319 2025 midyear estimate · World Bank
- Land area
- 1,213,090 km² 2023 · World Bank land area
- Currency
- South African Rand ZAR
- Languages
- 11 languages
- Continent
- Africa
Canonical file
Width to height in the file: 3:2
Codes
Alpha-2, alpha-3, and the numeric code are the codes published together in UN M49.
- ISO alpha-2
- ZA
- ISO alpha-3
- ZAF
- Numeric code
- 710
- Calling code
- +27
- Country-code domain
- .za
- Subregion
- Southern Africa
Languages
Status labels come from Unicode CLDR. They are not a ranking, and they are not a legal opinion.
Official
- English en
Official regional
- Afrikaans af
- Northern Sotho nso
- South Ndebele nr
- Southern Sotho st
- Swati ss
- Tsonga ts
- Tswana tn
- Venda ve
- Xhosa xh
- Zulu zu
Major populated places
- Johannesburg
- Cape Town
- Durban
- Pretoria
- Gqeberha
Names are the first five GeoNames cities5000 places for this country, ordered by that dataset’s population, after places within 20 km of a larger selected place are left out. This is not an official city ranking, and city populations are not shown.
Time zone
- Africa/Johannesburg
Other countries in Africa
Sources
- Population: 2025 · World Bank SP.POP.TOTL
- Land area: 2023 · World Bank AG.LND.TOTL.K2
- Capital: World Bank
- Unicode CLDR · IANA · GeoNames · libphonenumber
- Canonical file: File:Flag of South Africa.svg
Dataset retrieved 2026-09-26