Top 10 Interesting Facts About South Africa
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We're now about to explore the beautiful and Lovefilm country of South Africa and yes we finally added this country to our Interesting facts series and I'm very excited to share 10 surprising and interesting facts about South Africa with you hey guys welcome to another Article of Countries Facts and now before I jump into the facts I want to know when you think about South Africa what first comes to mind you know for me right away I think of food then I think of the music and then the phrase motherland comes to mind but that's just me let me hear from you alright guys enough chitchat let's just jump into the facts right now so starting at
1 when asking someone to name the capital of South Africa you know most people would be like you know it's obvious Johannesburg right although it is the largest and the financially the most important city in South Africa the answer is actually completely wrong South Africa.
2 South Africa has three official capital cities Pretoria that's the administrative district and then bloom Fontaine that's the judicial district and then Cape Town is a legislative capital of South Africa the country of South Africa is quite a multi-ethnic and multicultural country with one of the most diverse cultures and languages in the world there are eleven officially recognized languages in the constitution of South Africa.
3 South Africa and those are English Afrikaans in deeply PD su two Xhosa sis Watty Sawan gah setswana and Zulu or ISA Zulu only one of those languages I know how to speak is English so yeah let me know down below how you think I did on that pronunciation anyways the most spoken language is Zulu followed by Xhosa and those are also the two largest tribes in the country however English is considered to be the main language and is widely spoken throughout the country by most people there's no other country in the world that has this much official languages.
4 South Africa definitely takes this one big time so that is a treasure trove for archaeologists and paleontologists as it has produced some of the world's oldest and most valuable fossils to this date about a fifth of the world's gold come from the mines in South Africa by the way South Africa.
5 South Africa is the only country in the world to have two Nobel Peace Prize winners who have houses on the exact same Street the street in question is Villa Cod's II and that since Soweto in Johannesburg and the Nobel Peace Prize winners were Nelson Mandela as well as Archbishop Desmond Tutu now another interesting fact is that the first-ever heart transplant was carried out in South Africa.
6 South Africa at the grooty true Hospital in Cape Town now the surgeon Christian Bernard performed the operation in 1967 the operation was considered to be successful even though the patient did sadly pass away 18 days later from double pneumonia but his body had not rejected the heart so where else in the world can you share a warm and sunny beach with a colony of penguins like seriously though South Africa.
7 South Africa there are various colonies of African penguins also known as the Jackass penguin they can be found along the western coast of South Africa and the most famous place to visit these birds is in boulders beach and that's located south of Cape Town with over 6 million trees Johannesburg is considered to have the largest man-made forest in the entire world since the area of Johannesburg was originally a grassland all the trees were planted to provide wood for the growing mine industry in the 19th century however there have been many discussions on whether Johannesburg can officially claim this title and if the trees in the city can be considered to be a forest or not urban myth or not the city can definitely claim the title for being one of the most wooded cities in the entire world to show you the importance of South Africa.
8 South Africa accounts for almost 25% of the GDP of the entire African continent with an economy more than twice the size of the second-biggest which is in Algeria but things are changing rapidly all across Africa there's quite a bit of nations now that are really on the rise financially now South Africa.
9 South Africa is also the first African country to host the FIFA World Cup and that happened in 2010 yeah I was one of my favorite World Cups ever on top of that it's only this country in the world have hosted the cricket rugby union and football World Cups after England.
10 South Africa is the country is deferred and up till today the only country to build nuclear weapons and then to voluntary dismantle its nuclear weapons program there's no other country in history that has done that and that's a testament to the kind of people that South Africans.
I hope you enjoyed this journey into South Africa this country is filled with some great stories and people and although the country has seen some dark moments throughout its history the people continue to press forward with a bright smile and that's very inspiring to see so that wraps up this Article if you want to check out another one like this definitely click the annotation right beside my head we'll take you to it my social media links and you can follow me on Instagram or whatever just shoot me a message and I'll get back to you as quickly as possible and if you haven't done so already hit that subscribe button and ring that bell to join the Countries Facts family and keep up to date with all our daily Article alright guys I'll see you next time Goodbye.
