User:Mscoree/South Africa (Great White South)

The nation of South Africa, officially known as the Republic of South Africa, is a country located at the southern tip of Africa. On the African mainland it maintains 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian oceans. It is bordered to the north by the nations of Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east by Mozambique and Swaziland, and within it lies Lesotho, an enclave surrounded by South African territory. Besides its territory on the African mainland, the nation of South Africa also controls the Prince Edward Islands off the coast of Antarctica.

South Africa is a constitutional parliamentary republic with an executive capital in the city of Pretoria, a judicial capital in the city of Bloemfontein, and a legislative capital in the city of Cape Town, ruling over nine provinces.