South Africa is a country on the southernmost tip of the African continent, marked by several distinct ecosystems. Read some Less known & Interesting Facts about South Africa
Less known & Interesting Facts about South Africa
- The water of South Africa is rated in the world at number three as safe and ready to drink for drinking.
- There is a 6000-year-old tree in South Africa that has a bar inside.
- The world’s largest Themed resort hotel in the world named The Palace of the Lost City is found in South Africa. Surrounded by 25 hectare man made Botanical garden with almost 2 million plants, trees and shrubs.
- The South African Rovos Rail is considered the most luxurious train in the world.
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- General Motors South Africa is the only place outside of the USA to build the Hummer H3!
- Table Mountain in Cape Town is believed to be one of the oldest mountains in the world and one of the planet’s 12 main energy centres, radiating magnetic, electric or spiritual energy.
- Some countries have deserts, some have subtropical forests but South Africa has deserts, wetlands, grasslands, bush, subtropical forests, mountains and escarpments.
- The Karoo region in the Western Cape is home to some of the best fossils of early dinosaurs. In fact, it is estimated that some 80% of the mammalian fossils found to date were found in the Karoo.
- SA has three capital cities: Pretoria is the Executive Capital, Cape Town the Legislative Capital and Bloemfontein the judicial Capital.
- Nearly 1 in 5 people in South Africa is HIV positive, one of the biggest rates in the world.
- Can you think of any other place in the world, where two Nobel Peace Prize winners lived on the same street? Both Nelson Mandela and Archbishop Desmond Tutu had houses on Vilakazi Street in Soweto.
So, these are some Less known & Interesting Facts about South Africa.
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