the republic of South Africa occupies extensive terrain (1221 thousand both sq. km) in the extreme south of the African continent, in the west is flowed about Atlantic, in the south and the east - Indian by oceans. In the republic of South Africa there is the most southern tip of Africa - cape Igolnyj. The terrain republic of South Africa in an antiquity has been occupied bushmenami, gottentotami and the people to a bow, but after discovering in 1488 country colonisation has begun Portugueses of a southern tip of Africa. In 1652 the Dutch East Indian company had been based the first European settlement. The history of the republic of South Africa is noted not only a gain of terrain by incomers, but also fierce struggle (especially after discovering of deposits of diamonds) between offsprings of the migrants-Dutches who have compounded the special ethnic generality - bores, and England. Struggle has ended with education on the basis of two burskih republics in 1910 of the South African Union (with 1961 - the republic of South Africa) as a part of British Commonwealth. Official languages - afrikaans and English.
