South Africa is a medium-sized country, with a total land area of 1,219,090 square kilometres, or roughly equivalent in size to Niger, Angola, Mali or Colombia. It measures some 1,600 km from north to south, and roughly the same from east to west.

The nature of the country is diverse, as wetlands, forests, mountains, deserts and escarpments can be found there. It is also rich in mining and minerals, being the Earth's leader with almost 90% of all the platinum metals on the planet and around 40% of all the world’s Gold!

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