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South Africa has the longest wine route in the world, the R62 wine route.
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South Africa and its neighbours are some of the most generously endowed geographic solar hotspots in the world, soaking up just over half of the world’s highest category of solar wattage per square metre of land.
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South Afirica was the recent host of the FIFA world cup is is now the only country that host the cricket,and Rugby world cups.
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South Africa has one of the oldest meteor scars,called the Vredefort Dome.
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The rocks around Barberton in mpumalanga are over three billion years old.
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The tugela falls is the secound highest waterfall in the world,where the water tumbles down a 850 meters
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There are over 20,000 indignenous vascular rock species in south africa....these are only four of them
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Blyde river canyon is the third largest canyon in the world
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South africa's grasslands have over 30 species per square kil.greater than the biodiversity rainforests
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Therapsids are the true ancestors of mammals, and lived over 200 million years ago, long before the upstart dinosaurs of the Jurassic Age (which ended abruptly 65 million years ago). Most of the world’s proto-mammalian fossils are found in the Karoo - along with a 280 million year old fossilized shark.
