South Africa

English

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Republic of South Africa

Etymology

From Union of South Africa, the country's former official name, referring to its origin from the unification of four formerly separate British colonies.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsaʊθ ˈæf.ɹɪ.kə/
• (General South African) IPA^(key): [sɑɤ̯ˈθɛ̞frɘkə]

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• Rhymes: -æfɹɪkə

Proper noun

South Africa

2. A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of South Africa. Capitals: Pretoria, Cape Town, and Bloemfontein.
3. (now nonstandard) Southern Africa (a region of Africa).
   • 1901 March 15, The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎^[1], volume 4, number 1, page 1:

     With the exception of the Portuguese Colonies, the Journal is franked to all parts of South Africa.

Synonyms

(country):

• Republic of South Africa
• Mzansi
• Azania
• Soufrica
• SA

Holonyms

• Subsahara

Translations

country

• Abkhaz: Аладатәи Африка (Aladatʷʼi Afrikʼa)
• Afrikaans: Suid-Afrika (af)
• Albanian: Afrikë Jugore f, Afrika Jugore f (definite)
• Amharic: ደቡብ አፍሪካ (däbub ʾäfrika)
• Arabic: جَنُوب أَفْرِيقْيَا f (janūb ʔafrīqyā), أَفْرِيقِيَا الْجَنُوبِيَّة f (ʔafrīqiyā l-janūbiyya)
• Armenian: Հարավային Աֆրիկա (Haravayin Afrika)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܬܲܝܡܲܢ ܐܲܦܪܝܼܩܵܐ f (tayman aprīqā)
• Asturian: Sudáfrica (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Cənubi Afrika (az)
• Bashkir: Көньяҡ Африка (Könʹyaq Afrika)
• Basque: Hego Afrika
• Bavarian: Sidafrika
• Belarusian: Паўднёвая А́фрыка f (Paŭdnjóvaja Áfryka)
• Bengali: দক্ষিণ আফ্রিকা (bn) (dokkhin aphrika)
• Breton: Suafrika (br)
• Bulgarian: Ю́жна А́фрика f (Júžna Áfrika)
• Burmese: တောင်အာဖရိက (taung-ahpa.ri.ka.)
• Catalan: Sud-àfrica (ca) f, Àfrica del Sud f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 南非 (naam⁴ fei¹)

  Hakka: 南非 (Nàm-fî)

  Hokkien: 南非 (Lâm-hui)

  Mandarin: 南非 (zh) (Nánfēi)

  Wu: 南非 (⁶noe-fi)

• Chuvash: Кӑнтӑр Африка (Kănt̬ăr Afrik̬a)
• Corsican: Sudafrica m
• Czech: Jižní Afrika f
• Danish: Sydafrika (da) n
• Dhivehi: ދެކުނު އެފްރިކާ (dv) (dekunu efrikā)
• Dutch: Zuid-Afrika (nl) n
• Esperanto: Sud-Afriko (eo)
• Estonian: Lõuna-Aafrika, LAV
• Ewe: Anyiehe Afrika
• Faroese: Suðurafrika n
• Finnish: Etelä-Afrikka (fi)
• French: Afrique du Sud (fr) f
• Galician: Suráfrica (gl) f, África do Sur (gl) f
• Georgian: სამხრეთი აფრიკა (samxreti apriḳa)
• German: Südafrika (de) n
• Greek: Νότια Αφρική (el) f (Nótia Afrikí)
• Greenlandic: Afrika Kujalleq
• Hausa: Afirka ta Kudu f
• Hawaiian: ʻApelika Hema
• Hebrew: דְּרוֹם אַפְרִיקָה f (drom áfrika)
• Hindi: दक्षिण अफ़्रीका (hi) m (dakṣiṇ afrīkā), साउथ अफ़्रीका m (sāuth afrīkā)
• Hungarian: Dél-afrikai Köztársaság (hu)
• Icelandic: Suður-Afríka (is) f
• Indonesian: Afrika Selatan (id)
• Interlingua: Africa del Sud
• Irish: an Afraic Theas f
• Italian: Sudafrica (it) m
• Japanese: 南アフリカ (みなみアフリカ, Minami Afurika), 南ア (ja) (なんあ, Nan'a)
• Kazakh: Оңтүстік Африка (kk) (Oñtüstık Afrika)
• Khmer: អាហ្វ្រិកខាងត្បូង (ʼaafrɨk khaang tboung)
• Khoekhoe: ǁHui!gaeb m
• Korean: 남아프리카 (Namapeurika), 남아공(南阿共) (ko) (Namagong)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Afrîka Başûr

• Kven: Etelä-Aafrikka
• Kyrgyz: Түштүк Африка (ky) (Tüştük Afrika)
• Lao: ອາຟຣິກາໃຕ້ (ʼāp ri kā tai), ອາຝະລິກາໃຕ້ (ʼā fa li kā tai), ອາຟຣິກໃຕ້ (ʼāp rik tai), ອາຟະລິກໃຕ້ (ʼā fa lik tai), ອາຟຣິກກາໃຕ້ (ʼāp rik kā tai)
• Latin: Africa Australis f, Africa Meridionalis f
• Latvian: Dienvidāfrika f
• Limburgish: Zuid-Afrika
• Lithuanian: Pietų Afrika f
• Low German:

  Dutch Low Saxon: Zuud-Afrika

  German Low German: Süüdafrika

• Luxembourgish: Südafrika (lb)
• Macedonian: Јужна Африка (mk) f (Južna Afrika)
• Malagasy: Afrika Atsimo (mg)
• Malay: Afrika Selatan (ms)
• Maltese: l-Afrika t’Isfel f, is-Sud Afrika f
• Manx: Yn Affrick Yiass
• Maori: Āwherika ki te Tonga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Өмнөд Африк (Ömnöd Afrik)

  Mongolian: ᠡᠮᠦᠨᠡᠳᠦ
  ᠠᠹᠷᠢᠺᠠ (emünedü afrika)

• Navajo: Kéyah Naakai Łizhinii Bikéyah Shádiʼááhjí Siʼánígíí
• Nepali: दक्षिण अफ्रिका (dakṣiṇ aphrikā)
• Northern Sami: Mátta-Afrihká
• Northern Sotho: Afrika Borwa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sør-Afrika (no) n

  Nynorsk: Sør-Afrika (nn) n

• Oromo: Afrikaa Kibbaa
• Pashto: سويلي افريقا f (soeli afriqā)
• Pennsylvania German: Saut Afrikaa
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: آفْرِیقَایِ جَنُوبِی (āfrīqā-yi janūbī)

  Dari: آفْرِیقَایِ جَنُوبِی (āfrīqā-yi janūbī)

  Iranian Persian: آفْریقایِ جُنوبی (âfriğâ-ye jonubi)

• Polish: Afryka Południowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: África do Sul (pt) f
• Quechua: Urin Aprika
• Rarotongan: ‘Āperika Tonga
• Romanian: Africa de Sud (ro) f
• Romansch: Africa dal Sid f
• Russian: Ю́жная А́фрика f (Júžnaja Áfrika)
• Sardinian: Sudàfrica m
• Saterland Frisian: Suud-Afrikoa
• Scots: Sooth Africae
• Scottish Gaelic: Afraga a Deas, Poblachd Afraga a Deas
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Ју̏жна̄ А̀фрика f

  Roman: Jȕžnā Àfrika f

• Sicilian: Àfrica dû Sud f, Sudàfrica m
• Sinhalese: දකුණු අප්‍රිකාව (dakuṇu aprikāwa)
• Slovak: Južná Afrika f
• Slovene: Južna Afrika f
• Somali: Koonfur Afrika
• Sotho: Afrika Borwa (st)
• Spanish: Sudáfrica (es) f
• Swahili: Afrika Kusini (sw)
• Swedish: Sydafrika (sv) n
• Tagalog: Timog Aprika (tl)
• Tajik: Африқои Ҷанубӣ (tg) (Afriqoyi Janubī)
• Tamil: தென்னாப்பிரிக்கா (ta) (teṉṉāppirikkā)
• Tatar: Көньяк Африка (Kön’yak Afrika)
• Telugu: దక్షిణాఫ్రికా (dakṣiṇāphrikā)
• Thai: แอฟริกาใต้ (th) (ɛ́p-frí-gaa-dtâai)
• Tibetan: ལྷོ་ཨ་ཧྥེ་རི་ཁ། (lho a hphe ri kha)
• Tigrinya: ደቡብ ኣፍሪቃ (däbub ʾafriḳa)
• Tsonga: Afrika-Dzonga
• Tswana: Aforika Borwa
• Turkish: Güney Afrika (tr)
• Turkmen: Günorta Afrika
• Ukrainian: Півде́нна А́фрика (uk) f (Pivdénna Áfryka)
• Urdu: جُنُوبی اَفْرِیقَہ m (junūbī afrīqa), جَنُوبی اَفْرِیقَہ m (janūbī afrīqa), ساؤُتھ اَفْرِیقَہ m (sāuth afrīqa)
• Uyghur: جەنۇبىي ئافرىقا (jenubiy afriqa)
• Uzbek: Janubiy Ofriqo
• Venda: Afurika Tshipembe
• Venetian: Sudàfrica f
• Vietnamese: Nam Phi (vi) (南非 (vi))
• Volapük: Sulüdafrikän
• Welsh: De Affrica
• West Flemish: Zuud-Afrika
• West Frisian: Súd-Afrika
• Wolof: Afrig gu Bëj-saalum
• Xhosa: Mzantsi Afrika
• Yiddish: דרום אַפֿריקע n (dorem afrike)
• Yoruba: Ariwa Afirika
• Zealandic: Zuud-Afrika
• Zhuang: Nanzfeih
• Zulu: iNingizimu Afrika

Republic of South Africa — see Republic of South Africa

See also

• Appendix:Countries of the world
• (countries of Africa) countries of Africa; Algeria, Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Western Sahara, Zambia, Zimbabwe ^{(Category: en:Countries in Africa) [edit]}
• Southern Africa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Republic of South Africa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia