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Africa is a country of different cultures and ethnicities, boasting 11 different
official languages (Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, Venda, Swati,
Sesotho, Sepedi, Tsonga and Tswana). Demographically speaking South Africa
has about 48 million inhabitants, the majority are indigenous Africans who
are divided into several distinct tribal groups. South Africans of European
descent comprise a significant minority of the country's population, followed
by mixed race ethnic groups, as well as Asians of Chinese and Indian descent.
South Africa has nine provinces, each with its own legislature, premier
and executive council and distinctive landscape, population, economy and
climate. They are the Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal,
Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West and Western Cape. Each province
has a distinct culture and feel, related to the distribution of the various
ethnic groups that comprise the South African population.