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As of 2012, South Africa was the world's fifth-largest producer of gold but South Africa still possesses the world's second-largest reserves of gold. [14] It is the world's largest producer of chromium , manganese , platinum , vanadium and vermiculite and the second largest producer of ilmenite , palladium , rutile and zirconium . [ 15 ]
This is a list of the extreme points of South Africa, the points that are farther north, south, east or west than any other location in the country. Including the Prince Edward Islands Northernmost Point: Over Vlakte farm, Vhembe District Municipality , Limpopo Province ( 22°7′40″S 29°39′20″E / 22.12778°S 29.65556°E ...
This is a stylized illustration of the Southern African Great Escarpment, based particularly on its appearance in the Great Karoo, where thick erosion resistant dolerite sills (represented by the thick black lines in the diagram) generally form the upper, sharp edge of the escarpment; in other parts of the escarpment hard erosion-resistant geological layers similarly form the upper, abrupt ...
English: Combined map of Africa showing physical, political and population characteristics, in Mercator projection, with legend, as per 2018. Included are insets of the most populous parts of Africa: Nigeria, Egypt, Kenya and South Africa. Compiled using QGIS and CC-0 Natural Earth geodata.
This is a list of Southern African trees, shrubs, suffrutices, geoxyles and lianes, and is intended to cover Angola, Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe. [1] The notion of 'indigenous' is of necessity a blurred concept, and is clearly a function of both time and political boundaries.
Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa.No definition is agreed upon, but some groupings include the United Nations geoscheme, the intergovernmental Southern African Development Community, and the physical geography definition based on the physical characteristics of the land.
Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; ... The following is a list of ecoregions in South Africa, as identified by the Worldwide ...
Table Mountain. List of Mountains in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini is a general list of mountains in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini with elevation. This list includes mountains in two other sovereign states, in the Stormberg-Drakensberg range, where the highest elevations are to be found in Lesotho, as well as Emlembe, the highest mountain in Eswatini, located at the border with South ...