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Map: Joshua Moglia/Science
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South Africa occupies the southern tip of the African continent. Its long coastline stretches more than 2,500 km from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic coast, southward around the tip of Africa, and then north to the border with subtropical Mozambique on the Indian Ocean. A 2004 estimate from Statistics South Africa placed the South African population at around 46.6 million.
