Geography Map of South Africa Pictures

Posted by Unknown  |  at  15:47

Geography Map of South Africa Pictures

South Africa is amid at the southernmost arena of Africa, with a continued bank that stretches added than 2,500 km (1,553 mi) and forth two oceans (the South Atlantic and the Indian). At 1,219,912 km2 (471,011 sq mi), South Africa is the 25th-largest country in the apple and is commensurable in admeasurement to Colombia. Mafadi in the Drakensberg at 3,450 m (11,320 ft) is the accomplished aiguille in South Africa. Excluding the Prince Edward Islands, the country lies amid latitudes 22В° and 35В°S, and longitudes 16В° and 33В°E.

The autogenous of South Africa is a vast, flat, and sparsely busy scrubland, the Karoo, which is drier appear the northwest forth the Namib desert. In contrast, the eastern bank is abundant and well-watered, which produces a distance agnate to the tropics.

To the arctic of Johannesburg, the distance drops above the bank of the Highveld, and turns into the lower lying Bushveld, an breadth of alloyed dry backwoods and an affluence of wildlife. East of the Highveld, above the eastern escarpment, the Lowveld stretches appear the Indian Ocean. It has decidedly top temperatures, and is aswell the area of continued subtropical agriculture.

South Africa aswell has one possession, the baby sub-Antarctic archipelago of the Prince Edward Islands, consisting of Marion Island (290 km2 or 110 sq mi) and Prince Edward Island (45 km2 or 17 sq mi) (not to be abashed with the Canadian arena of the aforementioned name).