south africa Definition

country at the southern tip of Africa south of the Limpopo, Molopo, and Orange rivers and bordering on the Atlantic and Indian oceans; administrative capital Pretoria, legislative capital Cape Town, judicial capital Bloemfontein area 471,445 square miles (1,221,043 square kilometers), population 51,770,560

country on the Atlantic Ocean in southwestern Africa that is bisected by the Tropic of Capricorn; capital Windhoek area 318,321 square miles (824,451 square kilometers), population 2,113,077