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Askham is a village in the Dawid Kruiper Local Municipality in the ZF Mgcawu District Municipality in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.Askham lies not far from the confluence of the mostly dry Molopo and Kuruman Rivers in the Red Kalahari Desert, about 200 km north of Upington at the junction of the R31 and the R360 roads.
Cape Town [a] is the legislative capital of South Africa.It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [11] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [12]
Map of South Africa. This is a list of airports in South Africa, grouped by type and sorted by location. Most of the largest airports are owned by the Airports Company of South Africa these include all the international airports except for Lanseria International Airport which is privately owned. Most other public airports are owned by local ...
The name Sudan is a name given to a geographical region to the south of the Sahara, stretching from Western Africa to eastern Central Africa.The name derives from the Arabic bilād as-sūdān (بلاد السودان), or the "Land of the Blacks" [29] The term was used by Arab traders and travelers in the region to refer to the various indigenous black African cultures and societies that they ...
Botswana is the world's biggest diamond-producing country. Its relatively high gross national income per capita (by some estimates the fourth-largest in Africa) gives the country a relatively high standard of living and the second-highest Human Development Index of continental Sub-Saharan Africa (after South Africa).
Namibia (/ n ə ˈ m ɪ b i ə / ⓘ, / n æ ˈ-/), [15] [16] officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean.It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the east and south.
The Zulu Kingdom (/ ˈ z uː l uː / ZOO-loo; Zulu: KwaZulu), sometimes referred to as the Zulu Empire or the Kingdom of Zululand, was a monarchy in Southern Africa.During the 1810s, Shaka established a standing army that consolidated rival clans and built a large following which ruled a wide expanse of Southern Africa that extended along the coast of the Indian Ocean from the Tugela River in ...
South Africa is a sunny country, averaging 8–10 daily sunshine hours in most regions. [2] The average annual rainfall for South Africa is about 464 mm (compared to a global average of 786 mm [3]) but large and unpredictable variations are common.