Mostly unknown and fun facts about South Africa


Mostly unknown and fun facts about South Africa

1 South African territory is 5 times bigger than Japan and 3 times bigger than Texas.

2 They say there are more than 2000 shipwrecks near SA coasts.

3 Chris Hani Baragwanath is the biggest hospital in the world.

4. Durban is the largest port in Africa.

5. The best place to watch whales is in Hermanus.

6. Table Mountain is the oldest mountain in the world.

7. South Africa is one of the countries with the cleanest drinking water. Krugersdorp’s water has “blue drop” certificate for quality of its drinking water.

8.SA has the longest wine route in the world- it is Route 62.

9. The first heart transplant was done by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in 1967 in Cape Town Groote Schuur Hospital.

10. SA has 90% of world’s known supply of platinum, 41%- of gold.

11. The world’s largest diamond was found in Cullinan Diamond Mine in 1905 and it was cut into lesser diamonds, which are now part of the British Crown.

12.The Tugela Falls is the second highest waterfall in the world.

13. Blyde River Canyon is the third largest canyon in the world (after the 1st-Grand Canyon in the USA and the 2nd is the Fish River Canyon in Namibia)

14. Kruger National Park has the most animal species in Africa.

15. Cape Floral Kingdom has 9600 plants in the world, and they are on 70% unique – can be found only in SA.

16. SA is home to 8 World Heritage Sites. Only in SA you can stay on one of Heritage sites- Robben Island and look at the other- Table Mountain.

17.SA’s GDP constitutes about 25% of GDP from the whole Africa.

18. South African Breweries are the second largest in the world.

19. Three of the fastest land animals live in South Africa- cheetah, wildebeest and the lion.

20. UNISA is the largest correspondence university in the world.

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