South Africa country profile

Lead Author: Maggie Surface (other articles)
This article has been reviewed and approved by the following Topic Editor: Lakhdar Boukerrou (other articles)
Last Updated: June 4, 2008

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Sodwana Bay National Park, South Africa. (Photograph by John Morrison)
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Sodwana Bay National Park, South Africa. (Photograph by John Morrison)

  1. General overview
  2. Water in South Africa
  3. Energy in Southern Africa
  4. Human Development Index
  5. National parks and preserves:
    1. Cape Floral Protected Areas
    2. Greater St Lucia Wetland Park
  6. Ecoregions:
    1. Albany thickets
    2. Drakensberg montane grasslands, woodlands and forests
    3. Highveld grasslands
    4. Kalahari Acacia-Baikiaea woodlands
    5. Kalahari xeric savanna
    6. Knysna-Amatole montane forests
    7. KwaZulu-Cape coastal forest mosaic
    8. Lowland fynbos and renosterveld
    9. Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
    10. Montane fynbos and renosterveld
    11. Southern Africa bushveld
    12. Succulent Karoo
    13. Tristan Da Cunha-Gough Islands shrub and grasslands
    14. Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
  7. Regional biodiversity hotspot (Maputaland-Pondoland-Albany)
  8. Regional biodiversity hotspot (Cape Floristic Region)
  9. Regional biodiversity hotspot (Succulent Karoo)


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Citation
Surface, Maggie (Lead Author); Lakhdar Boukerrou (Topic Editor). 2008. "South Africa country profile." In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [Published in the Encyclopedia of Earth June 4, 2008; Retrieved November 28, 2008]. <http://www.eoearth.org/article/South_Africa_country_profile>
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