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====South Africa====
{{Further|Ethnic groups in South Africa}}
[[File:SAPS language.png|thumb|250px|Map showing the dominant languages in South Africa]]
Present-day [[South Africa]] is the successor state to the [[Union of South Africa]], which was formed from four British colonies in 1910.

South Africa has eleven official languages ([[Afrikaans]], English, [[Southern Ndebele language|Ndebele]], [[Northern Sotho language|Pedi]], [[Sotho language|Sotho]], [[Swazi language|Swazi]], [[Tsonga language|Tsonga]], [[Tswana language|Tswana]], [[Venda language|Venda]], [[Xhosa language|Xhosa]], and [[Zulu language|Zulu]]) and formally recognizes several other languages spoken by minority nations. Speakers of each language may be of a different nationality—for example, some members of the [[Southern Ndebele people|Ndebele]] and [[Tswana people|Tswana]] nations speak Zulu, and groups such as the [[Thembu people|Thembu]] and [[Hlubi people|Hlubi]] speak Xhosa.

As is the case throughout Africa, the nations of South Africa mostly correspond to specific regions. However, large cities such as [[Johannesburg]] are home to a mixture of national groups, leading to a "[[melting pot]]" of cultures. The government has continuously attempted to unify the country's various nationalities and to foster a South African identity.

Many of the nationalities found in South Africa are also found in bordering countries, and in some cases, more members live in South Africa than in the country where the group originated. For example, there are more [[Sotho people|Sotho]], Tswana, and [[Swazi people|Swazi]] people living in South Africa than in the bordering nation states of [[Lesotho]], [[Botswana]], and [[Eswatini]], respectively. In the past, this has led to conflict. Lesotho still claims large swathes of South Africa, and attempts have been made to cede some South African territory to Botswana and Eswatini. All three states were intended to be incorporated in the Union of South Africa, but those plans never came to fruition because of power struggles within their [[apartheid]] governments.