South Africa with its population of around fifty million is the 25th largest country in the world and is located in southern Africa sharing a border with Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe to its north, Swaziland and Mozambique to its east and 1738 miles of coastline bordering the Atlantic and Indian oceans. It has one further border with Lesotho, an enclave kingdom within South Africa. South Africa is home to twenty one national parks and eight world heritage sites making it a popular tourist destination.

It has nine provinces, Eastern Cape (13.5% of the population), Free State (5.7%), the tiny, crowded and urbanised Gauteng (22.4%), KwaZulu-Natal (21.3%), Limpopo (10.9%), Mpumalanga (7.2%), North West (6.4%), Western Cape (10.4%) and the vast and arid Northern Cape that makes up about a third of South Africa's landmass but is home to just 2.2% of South Africa's population accounting for 1.15 million people.

South Africa has eleven officially recognised languages: Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho sa Leboa, Sesotho, Setswana, siSwati, Tshivenda and Xitsonga. It is a predominantly Christian country (79.8%) with a further 1.5% being Muslim, 1.2% Hindu, 0.2% Judaism and 1.4% not known. (15% declare themselves as having no religion.)

Its black population is represented by four main peoples; the Nguni (Swazi, Zuleu, Xhose and Ndebele); the Venda, the Tsonga and the Sotho Tswana. Its white population are mainly descendants of colonial British settlers and the Afrikaners ~ Dutch, French Huguenot and German settlers from the 17th century together with immigrants from Europe mainly Portuguese, Greek Hungarian and Germans.

The above video shows pictures and images of South Africa today. Below are some other images of South Africa you may wish to explore including live webcams of South African wildlife and tourist attractions.

Karoo Desert Images of the Karoo Desert in South Africa, one of the most important fossil deposit sites in the world. More	Paardeberg Mountain Webcam Check out images of the Paardeberg Mountain in South Africa. Well worth a visit at sunset!! More	Table Mountain Webcam Stunning images of Table Mountain in South Africa. The webcam is refreshed every five minutes from Cape Town. More
Kruger National Park See live images from Kruger National Park in South Africa including lions, elephants, buffalos and Rhinos live! More	Tembe Elephant Park Live images of the world's largest elephants at Tembe Elephant Park located in South Africa. More	Waterhole Webcam This live Africa waterhole webcam provides live images  from the Satara wilderness deep in South Africa. More