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Qingzheng Li

Neusa H.MCWILLIAMS

GEPL 1010

April 22, 2011

SOUTH AFRICA

✓ Introduction

Do you know "the Rainbow Nation of Africa"? Yes! This country is the Public of

South Africa. Most of people know this country because of the Cape of Good Hope,

which is a beautiful please to relax. Actually, the South Africa has a lot of things to

introduce. In other words, the South Africa is a mysterious and unique country in this

world. For this report, I will introduce the basic information about this country by my

own research. The information include that physical geography, population,

migration patterns, ethnicities, languages, religious, history of political geography,

urbanism, development policies, agriculture, industries and services, and

environmental concerns, globalization trends, bibliography of the South Africa.
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l Physical Geography

The South Africa is a country that located at the southern tip of Africa, with 2798

km coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. The South Africa is the 25th largest

country in the world with 1,219,912 sq km. The South Africa is a country with a

highland and almost above 600m. The mountain-the Drakensberg at 3408m is the

highest people in the South Africa. South Africa stretches between the 17th to the

33rd degrees of Eastern longitude and the 22nd and 34th degrees of Southern latitude,

and hence is part of the subtropical zone. Therefore, the South Africa has two main

climates. One is Mediterranean Climates, another is Humid Subtropical Climate.

The Orange River and the Limpopo River are two main rivers in the South Africa.

Turing to the precipitation, there is a chart to show the precipitation. From this image,

the South Africa annual rainfall is about 502 mm, so sometime in somewhere there

are appear the drought of the west (R. Palmer and Andrew M. Ainslie. 2005).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So

uth_Africa

http://www.fao.org/docrep/

008/y8344e/y8344e08.htm

The basic information told us the South Africa is a country which is common, but

nest I going to research more evidences to prove the uncommon points of the South

Africa.

l Population

South Africa has a "big" number in population in a way. South Africa (the

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Republic of South Africa) has more than "49,109,107"people now. South Africa

ranked at twenty-fifth in population in the world (CIA-The World Factbook-South

Africa).

For each age structure, the number of population is different. There are 28.9%

people on 0-14 years, and including "7,093,382"males and "7,061,579"females. From

15 to 64 years, there are 65.8% and having "16,275,424" males and "15,984,181"

females. For people who are 65 years or over 65 years, South Africa has more than

"2,637,977" old people and including "1,075,117" men and "1,562,860"females

(CIA-The World Factbook-South Africa).

http://www.prb.org/Publications/Datasheets/2010/2010wpds.aspx

From the population pyramid, we can see that the South Africa is located on

stage 3, population explosion stage. Young people are the main part in population of

South Africa. In other words, age from 0-40 is main part in South Africa. People who

are from 10-25 ages are main force for this country. That means South Africa is not a