Geography

South Africa is the 25th largest country in the world and the countries highest mountain range is in Drakensberg, which is around 11,180 feet tall. A popular mountain in Cape town is table mountain, a 1000 metre tall mountain with a flat top covering a distance of 2 kilometres. The top of the mountain is usually covered by cloud which forms the so-called table cloth and gives the mountain its name.

There are nine provinces in South Africa, they include Western cape, Eastern cape, Northern cape, Free state,North West, Gauteng, Limpopo, Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal. The smallest of these provinces is Gauteng, a very crowded place. The largest of these provinces is Northern cape, it takes up one third of the land mass in South Africa.

There are two main rivers in South Africa the Limpopo (which flows in Zimbabwe) and the Orange, which flows across the entire country from east to west until it reaches Nambia where it enters the Atlantic Ocean. On the river Orange there is the countries largest dam, which in a very dry country like South Africa, is very important.