English > South Africa: 1 sense > noun 1, location| Meaning | A republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers). |
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| Synonym | Republic of South Africa |
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| Instance of | African country, African nation | Any one of the countries occupying the African continent |
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| Member of | British Commonwealth, Commonwealth of Nations | An association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown |
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| Members | Sotho | A member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages |
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| South African | A native or inhabitant of South Africa |
| Tswana, Bechuana, Batswana | A member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa |
| Xhosa | A member of the Negroid people of southern South Africa |
| Part of | Africa | The second largest continent |
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| Parts | Bloemfontein | The seat of the supreme court |
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| Cape Province, Cape of Good Hope Province, Cape Colony | A former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded / ceded to Great Britain in 1814 |
| Cape Town | port city in southwestern South Africa |
| Durban | A port city in eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean |
| Free State, Orange Free State | A province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers |
| Johannesburg | city in the northeastern part of South Africa near Pretoria |
| Kalahari, Kalahari Desert | A desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana |
| Kimberley | city in central South Africa |
| Limpopo, Crocodile River | An African river |
| Natal, KwaZulu-Natal | A region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean |
| Orange, Orange River | A river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean |
| Pretoria, capital of South Africa | city in the Transvaal |
| Soweto | A large collection of African townships to the southwest of Johannesburg in South Africa |
| Transvaal | A province of northeastern South Africa originally / originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu |
| Region of | People against Gangsterism and Drugs, PAGAD | A terrorist organization in South Africa formed in 1996 to fight drug lords |
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| Qibla | A small terrorist group of Muslims in South Africa formed in the 1980s |
| biltong | meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun |
| kaffir, kafir, caffer, caffre | An offensive and insulting term for any Black African |
| kopje, koppie | A small hill rising up from the African veld |
| laager, lager | A camp defended by a circular formation of wagons |
| mealie | An ear of corn |
| trek | A journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers) |
| Spanish | África del Sur, República de Sudáfrica, Republic of South Africa, South Africa, Sudáfrica, Suráfrica |
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| Catalan | Àfrica del Sud, República de Sud-àfrica, República de Sudàfrica, Sud-àfrica, Sudàfrica, Sud Àfrica |
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| Adjectives | Afrikaans, Afrikaner | belonging or relating to white people of South Africa whose ancestors were Dutch or to their language |
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| South African | of or pertaining to or characteristic of South Africa or its people |
