South Africa

English

Flag of South Africa

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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Proper noun

South Africa

1. A country in the southern region of the African continent. Its official name is Republic of South Africa.
2. (now nonstandard) Southern 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
• Azania
• Soufrica
• SA

Holonyms

• Subsahara

Translations

country

• Afrikaans: Suid-Afrika (af)
• Albanian: Afrika Jugore f
• Amharic: ደቡብ አፍሪካ (däbub ʾäfrika)
• Arabic: جَنُوب أَفْرِيقْيَا‎ f (janūb ʾafrīqyā)
• Armenian: Հարավային Աֆրիկա (Haravayin Afrika)
• Asturian: Sudáfrica (ast) f
• Azerbaijani: Cənubi Afrika (az)
• Basque: Hego Afrika
• Bavarian: Sidafrika
• Belarusian: Паўднёвая А́фрыка f (Paŭdnjóvaja Áfryka)
• Bengali: দক্ষিণ আফ্রিকা (bn) (dôkkhin 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)

  Mandarin: 南非 (zh) (Nánfēi)

  Min Nan: 南非 (Lâm-hui)

• Corsican: Sudafrica m
• Czech: Jižní Afrika (cs) f
• Danish: Sydafrika (da) n
• Dhivehi: ދެކުނު އެފްރިކާ‎ (dv) (dekunu efrikā)
• Dutch: Zuid-Afrika (nl) n
• Esperanto: Sud-Afriko (eo)
• Estonian: Lõuna-Aafrika, LAV
• 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)
• 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 (Oñtüstik Afrïka)
• Khmer: អាហ្វ្រិកខាងត្បូង (ʼaafrɨk khaang tboung)
• Khoekhoe: ǁHui!gaeb m
• Korean: 남아프리카 (Namapeurika)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: Afrîka Başûr

• Kven: Etelä-Aafrikka
• Kyrgyz: Түштүк Африка (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)

• Malay: Afrika Selatan
• 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)

• Navajo: Kéyah Naakai Łizhinii Bikéyah Shádiʼááhjí Siʼánígíí
• Northern Sami: Mátta-Afrihká
• Northern Sotho: Afrika Borwa
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sør-Afrika (no) n

  Nynorsk: Sør-Afrika (nn) n

• Pashto: سويلي افريقا‎ f (soeli afriqā)
• Pennsylvania German: Saut Afrikaa
• Persian: آفریقای جنوبی‎ (âfriqâ-ye jonubi)
• Polish: Afryka Południowa (pl) f
• Portuguese: África do Sul (pt) f
• Rarotongan: ‘Āperika Tonga
• Romanian: Africa de Sud (ro) 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)
• Tatar: Көньяк Африка (Kön’yak Afrika)
• Telugu: దక్షిణాఫ్రికా (dakṣiṇāphrikā)
• Thai: แอฟริกาใต้ (th) (ɛ́p-frí-gaa-dtâai)
• 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: جنوبی افریقہ‎ m (junūbī afrīqâ), ساؤتھ افریقہ‎ m (sā'uth afrīqâ)
• Uyghur: جەنۇبىي ئافرىقا‎ (jenubiy afriqa)
• Uzbek: Janubiy Ofriqo
• Venda: Afurika Tshipembe
• Vietnamese: Nam Phi (南非)
• Volapük: Sulüdafrikän
• Welsh: De Affrica
• West Flemish: Zuud-Afrika
• West Frisian: Súd-Afrika
• Xhosa: Mzantsi Afrika
• Yiddish: דרום אַפֿריקע‎ f (dorem afrike)
• Yoruba: Ariwa Afirika
• Zealandic: Zuud-Afrika
• 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) [edit]}
• Southern Africa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Republic of South Africa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia