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African rock python
The African rock python (Python sebae) is a large, nonvenomous snake of sub-Saharan Africa.
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Afrikaans
Afrikaans is a West Germanic language spoken in South Africa, Namibia and, to a lesser extent, Botswana and Zimbabwe.
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Beef cattle
Beef cattle are cattle raised for meat production (as distinguished from dairy cattle, used for milk production).
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Bloemfontein
Bloemfontein (Afrikaans and Dutch "fountain of flowers" or "blooming fountain"; also known as Bloem) is the capital city of the province of Free State of South Africa; and, as the judicial capital of the nation, one of South Africa's three national capitals (the other two being Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Pretoria, the administrative capital) and is the seventh largest city in South Africa.
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Blue crane
The blue crane (Grus paradisea), also known as the Stanley crane and the paradise crane, is the national bird of South Africa.
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Botha's lark
Botha's lark (Spizocorys fringillaris) is a species of lark in the family Alaudidae.
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Bronkhorstspruit Dam
Bronkhorstspruit Dam is a concrete-arch type dam on the Bronkhorst Spruit, near Bronkhorstspruit, Gauteng, South Africa.
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Bushveld
The Bushveld is a sub-tropical woodland ecoregion of Southern Africa named after the term veld.
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Carletonville
Carletonville is a gold-mining town in western Gauteng, South Africa.
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Citrus
Citrus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the rue family, Rutaceae.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.
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Conurbation
A conurbation is a region comprising a number of cities, large towns, and other urban areas that, through population growth and physical expansion, have merged to form one continuous urban or industrially developed area.
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Diamond
Diamond is a solid form of carbon with a diamond cubic crystal structure.
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Drakensberg
The Drakensberg (Afrikaans: Drakensberge, Zulu: uKhahlamba, Sotho: Maluti) is the name given to the eastern portion of the Great Escarpment, which encloses the central Southern African plateau.
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East Rand
The East Rand is the urban eastern part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation in South Africa.
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Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape is a province of South Africa.
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Free State (province)
The Free State (Vrystaat, Foreistata; before 1995, the Orange Free State) is a province of South Africa.
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Free State pygmy mouse
The Free State pygmy mouse or Orange mouse (Mus orangiae) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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Gauteng
Gauteng, which means "place of gold", is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.
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Geography of Lesotho
Lesotho is a mountainous, landlocked country located in Southern Africa.
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Giant girdled lizard
The sungazer (Smaug giganteus, syn. Cordylus giganteus), also known as the giant girdled lizard or giant dragon lizard or giant zonure, is the largest species of the Cordylidae, a family of lizards from Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Gold
Gold is a chemical element with symbol Au (from aurum) and atomic number 79, making it one of the higher atomic number elements that occur naturally.
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Grain
A grain is a small, hard, dry seed, with or without an attached hull or fruit layer, harvested for human or animal consumption.
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Grassland
Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae); however, sedge (Cyperaceae) and rush (Juncaceae) families can also be found along with variable proportions of legumes, like clover, and other herbs.
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Great Escarpment, Southern Africa
The Great Escarpment is a major geological formation in Africa that consists of steep slopes from the high central Southern African plateauAtlas of Southern Africa.
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Helianthus
Helianthus or sunflower is a genus of plants comprising about 70 species Flora of North America.
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Hyparrhenia hirta
Hyparrhenia hirta is a species of grass known by the common names common thatching grass and Coolatai grass.
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Johannesburg
Johannesburg (also known as Jozi, Joburg and Egoli) is the largest city in South Africa and is one of the 50 largest urban areas in the world.
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Kalahari Desert
The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for, covering much of Botswana, parts of Namibia and regions of South Africa.
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Karoo
The Karoo (from a Khoikhoi word, possibly garo "desert") is a semidesert natural region of South Africa.
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Kimberley, Northern Cape
Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.
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Koppies Dam Nature Reserve
Koppies Dam Nature Reserve, is situated on the highveld of the Free State province of South Africa.
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Kruger National Park
Kruger National Park is one of the largest game reserves in Africa.
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KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (also referred to as KZN and known as "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province were merged.
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Lesotho
Lesotho officially the Kingdom of Lesotho ('Muso oa Lesotho), is an enclaved country in southern Africa.
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Lesotho Highlands
The Lesotho Highlands are formed by the Drakensberg and Maloti mountain ranges in the east and central parts of the country of Lesotho.
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Limpopo
Limpopo is the northernmost province of South Africa.
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Livestock
Livestock are domesticated animals raised in an agricultural setting to produce labor and commodities such as meat, eggs, milk, fur, leather, and wool.
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Macrotyloma geocarpum
Macrotyloma geocarpum is also known as the ground bean, geocarpa groundnut, Hausa groundnut, or Kersting's groundnut.
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Magaliesberg
Magaliesberg (historically also known as Macalisberg or as the Cashan Mountains) is a mountain range extending west and north from Pretoria to just south of Pilanesberg, (see also Pilanesberg National Park), and extending for some 50 km east of Pretoria where it peters out just south of Bronkhorstspruit.
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Maize
Maize (Zea mays subsp. mays, from maíz after Taíno mahiz), also known as corn, is a cereal grain first domesticated by indigenous peoples in southern Mexico about 10,000 years ago.
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Manganese
Manganese is a chemical element with symbol Mn and atomic number 25.
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Mountain zebra
The mountain zebra (Equus zebra) is a threatened species in the family Equidae.
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Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga is a province of South Africa.
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Nile crocodile
The Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) is an African crocodile, the largest freshwater predator in Africa, and may be considered the second-largest extant reptile and crocodilian in the world, after the saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus porosus).
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Nile monitor
The Nile monitor (Varanus niloticus) is a large member of the monitor family (Varanidae) found throughout much of Africa, but is absent from the west, where it is replaced by Varanus stellatus.
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Nooitgedacht Dam Nature Reserve
Nooitgedacht Dam Nature Reserve is a park near Carolina in Mpumalanga, South Africa, situated on the Komati River.
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North West (South African province)
North West is a province of South Africa.
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Northern Cape
The Northern Cape (Noord-Kaap; Kapa Bokone) is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa.
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Orange River
The Orange River (from Afrikaans/Dutch: Oranjerivier) is the longest river in South Africa and the Orange River Basin extends extensively into Namibia and Botswana to the north.
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Plateau
In geology and physical geography a plateau (or; plural plateaus or plateaux),is also called a high plain or a tableland, it is an area of a highland, usually consisting of relatively flat terrain that is raised significantly above the surrounding area, often with one or more sides with steep slopes.
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Pretoria
Pretoria is a city in the northern part of Gauteng, South Africa.
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Rock monitor
The rock monitor (Varanus albigularis), also called the leguaan, likkewaan or black-throated monitor, is a species of monitor lizard found in Central, East and southern Africa.
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Rough-haired golden mole
Rough-haired golden moles (Chrysospalax villosus) are an ancient group of mammals that live mostly below ground.
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Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
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Sorghum
Sorghum is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family Poaceae.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Sporobolus
Sporobolus is a nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family.
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Straw-coloured fruit bat
The straw-coloured fruit bat (Eidolon helvum) is a large fruit bat that is the most widely distributed of all the African megabats.
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Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve
Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve is a protected area in the Suikerbosrand Range, South Africa.
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Transvaal Basin
The Transvaal Basin is one of three basins of the Transvaal Supergroup on the Kaapvaal craton.
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Vaal Dam
The Vaal Dam in South Africa was constructed in 1938 and lies 77 km south of OR Tambo International Airport.
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Vaal River
The Vaal River is the largest tributary of the Orange River in South Africa.
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Vanadium
Vanadium is a chemical element with symbol V and atomic number 23.
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Vegetable
Vegetables are parts of plants that are consumed by humans as food as part of a meal.
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Vereeniging
Vereeniging is a city in Gauteng province, South Africa, situated where the Klip River empties into the northern loop of the Vaal River.
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Verloren Valei Nature Reserve
Verloren Valei Nature Reserve (Lost Valley in English) is a protected area in Mpumalanga, South Africa.
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Virginia, Free State
Virginia is a gold mining town located in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality and on goldfields of the Free State province in South Africa about 140 km (90 mi) northeast of Bloemfontein the provincial capital.
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Vredefort crater
The Vredefort crater is the largest verified impact crater on Earth, more than across when it was formed.
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Welkom
Welkom is the second-largest city in the Free State province of South Africa, located about northeast of Bloemfontein, the provincial capital.
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West Rand
West Rand is the name of the urban western part of the Witwatersrand that is functionally merged with the Johannesburg conurbation.
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Wet season
The monsoon season, is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.
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Wheat
Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food.
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Willem Pretorius Game Reserve
Willem Pretorius Game Reserve is the largest game reserve in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality of South Africa, encircling the Allemanskraal Dam.
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Witwatersrand
The Witwatersrand (locally the Rand or, less commonly, the Reef) is a, north-facing scarp in South Africa.
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Witwatersrand Basin
The Witwatersrand Basin is a largely underground geological formation which surfaces in the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highveld
