Africa · Southern Africa

South Africa

Everything you need to work with South Africa country data: capital, population, currencies, languages, and codes, sourced from the REST Countries API and ready to drop into your own project.

Country facts

Capitals Pretoria, Cape Town, Bloemfontein

Population 63,015,904

Region Africa · Southern Africa

Codes ZA · ZAF

Currencies South African rand (ZAR)

Languages Afrikaans English Southern Ndebele Northern Sotho Sotho Swazi Tswana Tsonga Venda Xhosa Zulu

More data These are just the highlights. The REST Countries API returns 85+ more fields for South Africa, including borders, timezones, calling codes, native and translated names, and coordinates. See every field.

Call the South Africa country API

Request the full South Africa record from the REST Countries API. Copy the snippet for your language and drop in your own API key.

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curl "https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ZA?pretty=1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer {{your_api_key}}"

const response = await fetch(
  'https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ZA',
  { headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer {{your_api_key}}' } }
);
const data = await response.json();

fetch(
  'https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ZA',
  { headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer {{your_api_key}}' } }
)
  .then(function (response) { return response.json(); })
  .then(function (data) { console.log(data); });

import requests
response = requests.get(
  'https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ZA',
  headers={'Authorization': 'Bearer {{your_api_key}}'}
)
data = response.json()

$ch = curl_init('https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ZA');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ['Authorization: Bearer {{your_api_key}}']);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$data = json_decode(curl_exec($ch), true);

require 'net/http'
require 'json'
uri = URI('https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ZA')
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
request['Authorization'] = 'Bearer {{your_api_key}}'
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port, use_ssl: true) do |http|
  http.request(request)
end
data = JSON.parse(response.body)

package main
import (
  "encoding/json"
  "io"
  "net/http"
)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ZA", nil)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer {{your_api_key}}")
resp, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer resp.Body.Close()
body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
var data map[string]interface{}
json.Unmarshal(body, &data)

use reqwest::blocking::Client;
use serde_json::Value;
let client = Client::new();
let response = client
  .get("https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ZA")
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer {{your_api_key}}")
  .send()?;
let data: Value = response.json()?;

import java.net.URI;
import java.net.http.HttpClient;
import java.net.http.HttpRequest;
import java.net.http.HttpResponse;
HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();
HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
  .uri(URI.create("https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ZA"))
  .header("Authorization", "Bearer {{your_api_key}}")
  .GET()
  .build();
HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request, HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
String body = response.body();

using System.Net.Http;
using System.Net.Http.Json;
using System.Text.Json;
var client = new HttpClient();
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer {{your_api_key}}");
var data = await client.GetFromJsonAsync<JsonElement>(
  "https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ZA");

import Foundation
var request = URLRequest(url: URL(string: "https://api.restcountries.com/countries/v5/codes.alpha_2/ZA")!)
request.addValue("Bearer {{your_api_key}}", forHTTPHeaderField: "Authorization")
let (data, _) = try await URLSession.shared.data(for: request)
let json = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data)

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Integrate South Africa data into your app

The REST Countries API returns South Africa as structured JSON over HTTPS, ready to pull straight into web, mobile, and backend projects with no scraping and no manual data entry. Request only the fields you need and cache the response.

Populate country dropdowns, address forms, and checkout or shipping flows.
Localize your app with native names, languages, and currency details.
Enrich dashboards, CRMs, and analytics with region, population, and ISO codes.
Look up South Africa by alpha-2 code, alpha-3 code, or country name.

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🇿🇦 South Africa

Country facts

Call the South Africa country API

Integrate South Africa data into your app

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