South Africa Fact Sheet April, 2014 Country name Republic of South Africa Capital Pretoria Cape Town Population 52,000,000 people (in 2011) Size 1,200,000 km² (5x Japan) Weather Mostly warm, sunny, dry Languages English, Afrikaans, isiZulu, and 8 more Common animals Leopard Giraffe Hippopotamus Lion Popular sports Soccer Cricket Rugby Other 20% of the world's gold Second largest fruit growing country This content is under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. For attribution, please include my name, Douglas P Perkins, and a link to my website, https://dperkins.org. Giraffe picture by Giraud Patrick. CC-BY 2.5. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Namibie_Etosha_Girafe_02.jpg Hippopotamus picture by Clipartqueen. PD. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mother-hippo-and-baby-hippo.jpg Leopard picture by Mistvan. PD. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SriLankaLeopard-ZOO-Jihlava.jpg Lion picture by Sumit.pamnani. PD. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lion_in_masai_mara.jpg