--Awaiting for World Cup 2010--

The 2010 FIFA World Cup will be the 19th FIFA World Cup, an international tournament for football, that is scheduled to take place between 11 June and 11 July 2010 in South Africa. It will be the first time that the tournament has been hosted by a nation in the Confederation of African Football, leaving the Oceania Football Confederation as the only FIFA Confederation never to have hosted the event.
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Facts and Statistics

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Location: Southern most tip of Africa, bordering Botswana 1,840 km, Lesotho 909 km, Mozambique 491 km, Namibia 967 km, Swaziland 430 km, Zimbabwe 225 km

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Capital: Pretoria

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Climate: mostly semiarid; subtropical along east coast; sunny days, cool nights

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Population: 42,718,530

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Ethnic Make-up: black 75.2%, white 13.6%, Coloured 8.6%, Indian 2.6%

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Religions: Christian 68% (includes most whites and Coloreds, about 60% of blacks and about 40% of Indians), Muslim 2%, Hindu 1.5% (60% of Indians), indigenous beliefs and animist 28.5%

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Government: republic

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Languages in South Africa

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South Africa has 11 official languages. English is the language of administration and is spoken throughout the country. The other official languages are: Afrikaans, Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Swazi, Tsongo, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa and Zulu.
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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_World_Cup_2010
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~http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/south-africa-country-profile.html