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Eswatini's major overseas trading partners are the United States [18] and the European Union. [19] The majority of the country's employment is provided by its agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Eswatini is a member of the Southern African Development Community, the African Union, the Commonwealth of Nations, and the United Nations.
Ethnic group Sotho people Basotho King Moshoeshoe I, founder of the Southern Basotho Nation of Lesotho, with his Ministers. Total population c. 7,254,315 (2023 est.) Regions with significant populations South Africa 5,103,205 Lesotho 2,130,110 Botswana 11,000 Eswatini 6,000 Namibia 4,000 Languages Sesotho IsiXhosa, IsiZulu, English, Afrikaans Religion Christianity, Modimo Related ethnic groups ...
Eswatini (/ ˌ ɛ s w ɑː ˈ t iː n i / ESS-wah-TEE-nee; Swazi: eSwatini [ɛswáˈtʼiːni]), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini (Swazi: Umbuso weSwatini), sometimes written in English as eSwatini, and formerly and still commonly known in English as Swaziland (/ ˈ s w ɑː z i l æ n d / SWAH-zee-land; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
The Swati people and the Kingdom of Eswatini today are named after Mswati II, who became king in 1839 after the death of his father King Sobhuza. Eswatini was a region first occupied by the San people and the current Swazis migrated from north East Africa through to Mozambique and eventually settled in Eswatini in the 15th century. Their royal ...
A church in Bethel, Eswatini in 1930. Christianity is the predominant religion in Eswatini, with Protestantism being its largest denomination. [3] The royal family of Eswatini is officially Christian. [4] The Constitution of the Kingdom provides for freedom of religion and the government generally respects religious liberty. [3]
The Bible Society of Nigeria published a revised translation in 2014. Another translation called Sabon Rai Don Kowa was published in 2020. The same year, the first complete Bible in Hausa ajami script was published (Biblical texts had been published before, the first ones during the last years of the 19th century).
The location of Eswatini An enlargeable map of the Kingdom of Eswatini. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Eswatini: . Eswatini (officially the Kingdom of Eswatini) – is a small, landlocked, sovereign country located in Southern Africa, bordered by South Africa on three sides except to the east, where it borders Mozambique. [1]
[14] [15] The New Testament portion was released first, in 1950, as the New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures, [16] [17] with the complete New World Translation of the Bible released in 1961. [18] [19] It is not the first Bible to be published by the Watch Tower Society, but it is its first translation into English.