South Africa
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Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- ZA
- ISO alpha-3
- ZAF
- ISO numeric
- 710
- FIPS 10-4
- SF
- GeoNames ID
- 953987
Key facts
- Capital
- Pretoria
- Area
- 1,219,912 km²
- Population
- 57,779,622
- Currency
- Rand (ZAR)
- Calling code
- +27
- Top-level domain
- .za
- Official languages
- zu,xh,af,nso,en-ZA,tn,st,ts,ss,ve,nr
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- -29
- Longitude
- 24
- Min latitude
- -46.96575286299992
- Min longitude
- 16.469981316000087
- Max latitude
- -22.126451924999927
- Max longitude
- 37.97779381600009
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/ZA?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 1219912,
"capital": "Pretoria",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "ZAR",
"iso3_code": "ZAF",
"iso_code": "ZA",
"name": "South Africa",
"population": 57779622
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/ZA/regions/v1/cities?country=ZA/v1/postal-codes?country=ZA/v1/timezones?country=ZA
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- جنوب أفريقيا
- Chinese
- 南非
- English
- South Africa
- French
- Afrique du Sud
- German
- Südafrika
- Hindi
- दक्षिण अफ़्रीका
- Italian
- Sudafrica
- Japanese
- 南アフリカ
- Korean
- 남아프리카
- Portuguese
- África do Sul
- Russian
- ЮАР
- Spanish
- Sudáfrica
- Total language variants
- 153
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Johannesburg | UTC+02:00 | UTC+02:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ####
- Pattern
^(\d{4})$
First-level administrative regions
- Gauteng
- KwaZulu-Natal
- Western Cape
- Eastern Cape
- Limpopo
- Mpumalanga
- North West
- Free State
- Northern Cape
9 of 9 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Johannesburg | 9,418,183 |
| Cape Town | 4,772,846 |
| Durban | 3,338,026 |
| Pretoria | 2,112,693 |
| Soweto | 1,695,047 |
| Gqeberha | 1,050,078 |
| Soshanguve | 872,309 |
| Pietermaritzburg | 839,327 |
| Evaton | 725,468 |
| Benoni | 605,344 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 13,529
- First-level regions
- 9
- Postal codes
- 3,920
- Name languages
- 153
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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