For the country, see South Africa. For the region of the African Union, see Regions of the African Union § Southern.
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Southern Africa is the southernmost region of Africa. No definition is agreed upon, but some groupings include the United Nations geoscheme, the intergovernmental Southern African Development Community, and the physical geography definition based on the physical characteristics of the land.
Defined by physical geography, Southern Africa is home to a number of river systems; the Zambezi River is the most prominent. The Zambezi flows from the northwest corner of Zambia and western Angola to the Indian Ocean on the coast of Mozambique. Along the way, it flows over Victoria Falls on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Victoria Falls is one of the largest waterfalls in the world and a major tourist attraction for the region.[1]
Southern Africa includes both subtropical and temperate climates, with the Tropic of Capricorn running through the middle of the region, dividing it into its subtropical and temperate halves. Countries commonly included in Southern Africa include Angola, Botswana, the Comoros, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In cultural geography, the island country of Madagascar is often not included due to its distinct language and cultural heritage.[1]
SouthernAfrica is the southernmost region of Africa. No definition is agreed upon, but some groupings include the United Nations geoscheme, the intergovernmental...
continent, southern Namibia, southern Botswana, great parts of South Africa, the entire territories of Lesotho and Eswatini and the southern tips of Mozambique...
period, in which the current nations were formed. SouthernAfrica is bordered by Central Africa, East Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and the...
The SouthernAfrican Customs Union (SACU) is a customs union among five countries of SouthernAfrica: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa...
The SouthernAfrican Development Community (SADC) is an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana. The SADC's goal is to further...
abundance of root tuber products. Central Africa, East Africa, North Africa, SouthernAfrica and West Africa each have distinctive dishes, preparation...
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA or R.S.A.), is the southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres...
Traditional healers of SouthernAfrica are practitioners of traditional African medicine in SouthernAfrica. They fulfill different social and political...
The Common Market for Eastern and SouthernAfrica (COMESA) is a regional economic community in Africa with twenty-one member states stretching from Tunisia...
affected the SouthernAfrican mainland. Three southeastern African countries border the Indian Ocean – Tanzania, Mozambique, and South Africa. Other inland...
environmental issues in SouthernAfrica, such as climate change, land, water, deforestation, land degradation, and pollution. The SouthernAfrica region itself...
south of the Sahara Desert, can be considered as the southern boundary of North Africa. North Africa includes the Spanish cities of Ceuta and Melilla, and...
been found across West, Central, Eastern and SouthernAfrica. The history of science and technology in Africa since then has, however, received relatively...
professional golf tour based in Southern and East Africa. For much of its early history it was known either as the SouthernAfrica Tour or Sunshine Circuit;...
The SouthernAfrican rock python (Python natalensis) is a large python species native to SouthernAfrica inhabiting savanna and woodland. It was first...
The SouthernAfrican wildcat (Felis lybica cafra) is an African wildcat subspecies native to Southern and Eastern Africa. In 2007, it was tentatively recognised...
Panthera leo melanochaita is a lion subspecies in Southern and East Africa. In this part of Africa, lion populations are regionally extinct in Lesotho...
West Africa, East Africa, and SouthernAfrica; the Pygmy populations in Central Africa; and the Khoisan populations in SouthernAfrica. As a first overview...
Africa (UNISA) is the largest university system in South Africa by enrollment. It attracts a third of all higher education students in South Africa....
population in most SouthernAfrican, Southeast African, and Central African states and in large parts of the Horn of Africa and West Africa, while the Coptic...
encountered across Africa, especially in the Western, Central and SouthernAfrica regions. Arabic script is mainly used in North Africa and Ge'ez script...
Central, Southeast and SouthernAfrica. Afroasiatic languages are spread throughout Western Asia, North Africa, the Horn of Africa and parts of the Sahel...
an alphabetical list of subregions in the United Nations geoscheme for Africa, used by the United Nations and maintained by the UNSD department for statistical...
(pronounced [kxʰoesaːn]), is a catch-all term for the indigenous peoples of SouthernAfrica who traditionally speak non-Bantu languages, combining the Khoekhoen...