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Limpopo
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Mapungubwe is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It
was once the capital city of the largest and most
wealthy kingdom in Southern Africa.
The people
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who lived here were farmers, and excellent traders
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Krugerwith
National
is one
of and Egypt.
who
China,Park
India,
Arabia
Africa’s
largest
game reserves.
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The
city was
abandoned
before the
can
spot
all the animals
that
make
and
was
discovered
again in
1932.
Archeologists
up
‘the
bigremains
five’
have
found
of a palace,
human bones,
Polokwane
is theincluding
capital
ofbuffalos,
elephants,
rhinos,
leopards
and artifacts
lions
royal
gravesPolokwane
and many
beautiful
such as
Limpopo.
means
in
the gold
park.
a small
rhino.in Sesotho.
‘place
of
safety’
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Area:
125 743 square km
Major Industries:
tourism
Farming:
fruit, tea, coffee, beef,
forestry, sorghum,
game, maize, sunflowers
Population:
5 404 868
Main Languages:
Sesotho 53%
Xitonga 17%,
Tshivenda 17%
Mining:
platinum, diamonds,
iron ore, gold, copper
Population density:
43 people per square
kilometer
North West
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The Magaliesberg Mountains are
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some of theRuins
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mountains
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world.
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the capital
city of the
can
travel
upIttomeans
the
top
of the
Tswana
settlement
Africa.
the
North
West.
‘place
amongst
the
rocks’.
The Taung
Child
is in
theSouthern
fossilized
skull
of aIn
young
mountain
the
Hartbeespoort
early
the
city
had
a (an
population
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area isusing
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with
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volcanic
rocks
that
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human
ancestor).
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between
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founded
1924
miners
mining for lime.
gave
Stone
Age
humans.
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Area:
104 882 square km
Major Industries:
None
Farming:
maize, sunflowers,
sorghum, groundnuts,
wheat, beef, pigs
Population:
3 509 953
Main Languages:
Setswana 63%,
Afrikaans 9%
Mining:
gold, platinum,
uranium, diamonds,
chromite
Population density:
33 people per square km
Mpumalanga
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The Blyde River Canyon is carved out
of
red sandstone.
It isknown
the third
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Mbombela
(formally
as
The
Makhonjwa
Mountains,
near
Barberton,
contain
largest
canyon
the world
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city and
of has
some
of
preserved
volcanic
and
some
ofthe
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most
beautiful
viewpoints
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Mpumalanga.
It
has
a
large
rocks
in the
world. They are
know as
‘The Genisis of
like
God
Window
Bourke's
Luck
The
Mac especially
Mac Fallsand
are
near
to the
stadium
built
for
the
Life’ as they contain fossils that are the first microfossil
Potholes.
town
of of
Sabie.
are 70m high.
FIFA
World
Cup
in 2010.
evidence
life
onThey
Earth.
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Area:
76 495 square km
Major Industries:
power stations, SASOL,
paper manufacturing,
tourism
Farming:
maize, fruit, sorghum,
forestry, beef
Population:
4 039 939
Main Languages:
siSwati 28%,
isiZulu 24%,
Xitsonga 19%,
isiNdebele 10%
Mining: gold, coal
Population density:
53 people per square km
Gauteng
Soweto has many claims to fame: it is the only
place in the world where two Noble Prize
winners live on the same street, it is home to the
biggest hand-painted mural (on
1 the Orlando
Towers) and it is home to South Africa’s largest
sports stadium, the FNB Stadium, which was
built especially for2the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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Johannesburg
is
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capital
city
of
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The Cradle of Humankind is a
The
Union
Buildings
are
where
the
office
of
the
Gauteng
and the largest
in South
paleoanthropological
sitecity
(study
of human
president can be found. In front of the buildings there is
Africa.
The gold rush
in world's
1886 was
the hominin
ancesters),
is the
richest
a large park which
which contains
a 9 meter
high statue of
start
of
Johannesburg,
or
Jozi,
as
it
isto about
th
early
remains
site. It isofhome
Nelsonhuman
Mandela,
the 7 president
the Republic
of
fondly
known.
40% of
the world's human ancestor fossils.
South
Africa.
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Area:
18 178 square km
Major Industries:
financial services
Farming:
pigs
Population:
12 272 263
Main Languages:
isiZulu 20%,
English 13%,
Afrikaans 12%
Sesotho 12%
Mining:
gold
Population density:
675 per square km
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KwaZulu Natal
The Drakensberg Mountains are a
200km long mountain range that
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separates KZN with the kingdom
of
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Lesotho. Its Zulu name is
‘Ukhahlamba’, which means ‘the
barrier of spears’. This mountain
range is a World Heritage Site.
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Worldsandy
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Site.
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is
the You
one
South
African’s
and of
animal
and
521 bird species in this
capital
city
ofspecies
KwaZulu
Natal.
favorite
placesintothe
visit
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was including
founded
1838
byfor
thea Estuarine system in
park,
biggest
Voortrekker
settlers.
holiday.
Africa at St.
Lucia.
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Area:
94 361 square km
Major Industries:
manufacturing, metal
smelting, chemicals, oil
refining, sugar refining,
tourism
Farming:
sugar cane, fruit, maize,
beef and dairy, pigs,
goats
Population:
10 267 300
Main Languages:
isiZulu 78%,
English 13%
Mining: coal
Population density:
109 people per square
km
Eastern Cape
The Tsitsikama National Park is homeXto an
indigenous rainforest with 116 types of trees
that grow very large and tall. Its name comes
from a San word which means ‘place of
abundant water’.
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The Wild Coast has1 very rough seas
and many
2 shipwrecks have occurred
here over the centuries, including the
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Portuguese ship, Sao Joao, which ran
Port Elizabeth (the capital
city
of
the
Eastern
Cape)
is
aground
here on 4th August 1782. It
known as the ‘windy city’. In isiXhosa, it is known as
is
believed
that
Port‘bay’.
St. Johns
was
Ibhayi,
which
means
PE forms
part of the Nelson
named
Mandelaafter
Metro.this ship.
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Area:
94 361 square km
Major Industries:
manufacturing motor
vehicles, tourism
Farming:
fruit, sheep, beef, dairy,
goats, game
Population:
6 652 053
Main Languages:
isiXhosa 79%,
Afrikaans 11%
Mining:
copper, nickel, granite,
shale
Population density:
38 people per square km
Western Cape
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industry
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years
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a popular
tourist
destination.
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to as
the
farms.
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farmed
forfor
their
feathers,
based
the
Cape,
where
work and
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who monitors,
protects
and
aSANCOB
high-security
prison
that
once
skin
leanWestern
meat.
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ostrich
eggs
arehoused
used
the
climate
is
perfect
for
growing
rehabilitates
birds
alongwhich
the
South
Nelson
Mandela
and
some
of thecoastline.
other
for
many
local
crafts
areAfrican
exported
grapes. The wine
industry employs
Trialists.
aroundRivonia
the world.
This, together with the
over
300
000
people
thousands of tourists and
who contributes
visit the farms
more
than
R36
billion
rand
to the is able to
every year, mean ostrich farming
South African
economy.
employ
many people
in an area where there
are not a lot of employment opportunities.
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Area:
129 462 square km
Major Industries:
financial services, oil
refining, manufacturing,
clothing, steel, wine,
food processing, tourism
Farming:
fruit, vegetables, wheat,
sheep, pigs, dairy, fishing
Population: 5 822 734
Main Languages:
Afrikaans 50%,
isiXhosa, English 20%
Mining:
diamonds, titanium,
iron, phosphate,
manganese
Population density:
45 people per square km
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Northern Cape
‘The Big Hole’ is situated
in Kimberley
aremote
result of
Sutherland
is a and
small
Once a year,
anisarea
of
years of open cast diamond
mining
that
started
in
South
African
town
that
has
5is transformed into
desert
1866. It is 215 meters less
deep,than
with2000
a surface
area of 17
residents.
It
the1.6most
amazing flower
hectares and a perimeter
of
kilometers.
holds the record for the
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show, forming the
coldest
place in South
Africa
Namaqualand
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a temperature
of -20C! It
3 The plants
has germinate
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pollution
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makes
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spot July
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between
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arrive in
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telescope
in the
southern
the
area.
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almost
Augrabies Falls, onhemisphere).
the Orange River, is a
X
4000
different
species
of
Kgalagadi
Park
is aand
national
spectacularTransfrontier
sight. It’s 56m
high
24m across.
plants
that
put
on
this
park
that is desert.
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few
South
African
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people It
of has
the
Khoikhoi)
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spectacular
species
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adapted
for life‘place
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named that
the falls
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means
the
desert,
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the black-maned
of big
noises’
is where theKalahari
name Augrabies
lions.
comes from).
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Area:
372 889 square km
Major Industries:
None
Farming:
grapes, cotton, sheep,
goats
Population:
1 145 861
Main Languages:
Afrikaans 54%,
Setswana 33%
Mining:
diamonds
Population density:
3 people per square km
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Free State
The Orange River is the longest river in South Africa at
Bloemfontein is the capital
2200km long. Its source is high up in the Drakensberg
city of the Free State. Its
and Maluti Mountains and it flows all the way to the
Sesotho
Atlantic Ocean on the west
coast. name is
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‘Mangaung’, which means
‘place of cheetahs’.
3
2
Golden Gate National Park is in the foothills of
the Maluti Mountains. It1 got its name from the
sandstone of the area that is a golden colour. The
park has many caves that were used by early
settlers for shelter.
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Area:
129 825 square km
Major Industries:
petrol from coal
Farming:
maize, wheat,
vegetables, groundnuts,
sorghum, beef, dairy
Population:
2 745 590
Main Languages:
Sesotho 64%,
Afrikaans 13%
Mining:
coal, gold, diamonds
Population density:
21 per square km
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