Nagkakulap na ang kabantug ni Ilbis Prisli, Elvis Presley’s popularity is fading.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Geography South Africa Location: Southern Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Geographic coordinates: 29 00 S, 24 00 E Map references: Africa Area: total: 1,219,912 sq km land: 1,219,912 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Prince Edward Islands (Marion Island and Prince Edward Island) Area - comparative: slightly less than twice the size of Texas Land boundaries: total: 4,862 km border countries: Botswana 1,840 km, Lesotho 909 km, Mozambique 491 km, Namibia 967 km, Swaziland 430 km, Zimbabwe 225 km Coastline: 2,798 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to edge of the continental margin Climate: mostly semiarid; subtropical along east coast; sunny days, cool nights Terrain: vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain Elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Njesuthi 3,408 m Natural resources: gold, chromium, antimony, coal, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, tin, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium, salt, natural gas Land use: arable land: 12.1% permanent crops: 0.79% other: 87.11% (2005) Irrigated land: 14,980 sq km (2003) Total renewable water resources: 50 cu km (1990) Freshwater withdrawal (domestic/industrial/agricultural): total: 12.5 cu km/yr (31%/6%/63%) per capita: 264 cu m/yr (2000)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

New Caledonia: total: 19,060 sq km land: 18,575 sq km water: 485 sq km New Zealand: total: 268,680 sq km land: 268,670 sq km water: 10 sq km note: includes Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, Bounty Islands, Campbell Island, Chatham Islands, and Kermadec Islands Nicaragua: total: 129,494 sq km land: 120,254 sq km water: 9,240 sq km Niger: total: 1.267 million sq km land: 1,266,700 sq km water: 300 sq km Nigeria: total: 923,768 sq km land: 910,768 sq km water: 13,000 sq km Niue: total: 260 sq km land: 260 sq km water: 0 sq km Norfolk Island: total: 34.6 sq km land: 34.6 sq km water: 0 sq km Northern Mariana Islands: total: 477 sq km land: 477 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes 14 islands including Saipan, Rota, and Tinian Norway: total: 324,220 sq km land: 307,860 sq km water: 16,360 sq km Oman: total: 212,460 sq km land: 212,460 sq km water: 0 sq km Pacific Ocean: total: 155.557 million sq km note: includes Bali Sea, Bering Sea, Bering Strait, Coral Sea, East China Sea, Flores Sea, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of Tonkin, Java Sea, Philippine Sea, Savu Sea, Sea of Japan, Sea of Okhotsk, South China Sea, Tasman Sea, Timor Sea, and other tributary water bodies Pakistan: total: 803,940 sq km land: 778,720 sq km water: 25,220 sq km Palau: total: 458 sq km land: 458 sq km water: 0 sq km Palmyra Atoll: total: 11.9 sq km land: 11.9 sq km water: 0 sq km Panama: total: 78,200 sq km land: 75,990 sq km water: 2,210 sq km Papua New Guinea: total: 462,840 sq km land: 452,860 sq km water: 9,980 sq km Paracel Islands: total: NA sq km land: NA sq km water: 0 sq km Paraguay: total: 406,750 sq km land: 397,300 sq km water: 9,450 sq km Peru: total: 1,285,220 sq km land: 1.28 million sq km water: 5,220 sq km Philippines: total: 300,000 sq km land: 298,170 sq km water: 1,830 sq km Pitcairn Islands: total: 47 sq km land: 47 sq km water: 0 sq km Poland: total: 312,685 sq km land: 304,465 sq km water: 8,220 sq km Portugal: total: 92,391 sq km land: 91,951 sq km water: 440 sq km note: includes Azores and Madeira Islands Puerto Rico: total: 9,104 sq km land: 8,959 sq km water: 145 sq km Qatar: total: 11,437 sq km land: 11,437 sq km water: 0 sq km Reunion: total: 2,512 sq km land: 2,502 sq km water: 10 sq km Romania: total: 237,500 sq km land: 230,340 sq km water: 7,160 sq km Russia: total: 17,075,200 sq km land: 16,995,800 sq km water: 79,400 sq km Rwanda: total: 26,338 sq km land: 24,948 sq km water: 1,390 sq km Saint Helena: total: 410 sq km land: 410 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes St. Helena Island, Ascension, and the island group of Tristan da Cunha, which consists of Tristan da Cunha Island, Gough Island, Inaccessible Island, and the three Nightingale Islands Saint Kitts and Nevis: total: 261 sq km (Saint Kitts 168 sq km; Nevis 93 sq km) land: 261 sq km water: 0 sq km Saint Lucia: total: 620 sq km land: 610 sq km water: 10 sq km Saint Pierre and Miquelon: total: 242 sq km land: 242 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes eight small islands in the Saint Pierre and the Miquelon groups Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: total: 389 sq km (Saint Vincent 344 sq km) land: 389 sq km water: 0 sq km Samoa: total: 2,860 sq km land: 2,850 sq km water: 10 sq km San Marino: total: 61.2 sq km land: 61.2 sq km water: 0 sq km Sao Tome and Principe: total: 1,001 sq km land: 1,001 sq km water: 0 sq km Saudi Arabia: total: 1,960,582 sq km land: 1,960,582 sq km water: 0 sq km Senegal: total: 196,190 sq km land: 192,000 sq km water: 4,190 sq km Seychelles: total: 455 sq km land: 455 sq km water: 0 sq km Sierra Leone: total: 71,740 sq km land: 71,620 sq km water: 120 sq km Singapore: total: 647.5 sq km land: 637.5 sq km water: 10 sq km Slovakia: total: 48,845 sq km land: 48,800 sq km water: 45 sq km Slovenia: total: 20,253 sq km land: 20,253 sq km water: 0 sq km Solomon Islands: total: 28,450 sq km land: 27,540 sq km water: 910 sq km Somalia: total: 637,657 sq km land: 627,337 sq km water: 10,320 sq km South Africa: total: 1,219,912 sq km land: 1,219,912 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Prince Edward Islands (Marion Island and Prince Edward Island) South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands: total: 3,903 sq km land: 3,903 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Shag Rocks, Black Rock, Clerke Rocks, South Georgia Island, Bird Island, and the South Sandwich Islands, which consist of some nine islands Southern Ocean: total: 20.327 million sq km note: includes Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, part of the Drake Passage, Ross Sea, a small part of the Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea, and other tributary water bodies Spain: total: 504,782 sq km land: 499,542 sq km water: 5,240 sq km note: includes Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, and five places of sovereignty (plazas de soberania) on and off the coast of Morocco - Ceuta, Melilla, Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera Spratly Islands: total: less than 5 sq km land: less than 5 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes 100 or so islets, coral reefs, and sea mounts scattered over an area of nearly 410,000 sq km of the central South China Sea Sri Lanka: total: 65,610 sq km land: 64,740 sq km water: 870 sq km Sudan: total: 2,505,810 sq km land: 2.376 million sq km water: 129,810 sq km Suriname: total: 163,270 sq km land: 161,470 sq km water: 1,800 sq km Svalbard: total: 62,049 sq km land: 62,049 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Spitsbergen and Bjornoya (Bear Island) Swaziland: total: 17,363 sq km land: 17,203 sq km water: 160 sq km Sweden: total: 449,964 sq km land: 410,934 sq km water: 39,030 sq km Switzerland: total: 41,290 sq km land: 39,770 sq km water: 1,520 sq km Syria: total: 185,180 sq km land: 184,050 sq km water: 1,130 sq km note: includes 1,295 sq km of Israeli-occupied territory Tajikistan: total: 143,100 sq km land: 142,700 sq km water: 400 sq km Tanzania: total: 945,087 sq km land: 886,037 sq km water: 59,050 sq km note: includes the islands of Mafia, Pemba, and Zanzibar Thailand: total: 514,000 sq km land: 511,770 sq km water: 2,230 sq km Togo: total: 56,785 sq km land: 54,385 sq km water: 2,400 sq km Tokelau: total: 10 sq km land: 10 sq km water: 0 sq km Tonga: total: 748 sq km land: 718 sq km water: 30 sq km Trinidad and Tobago: total: 5,128 sq km land: 5,128 sq km water: 0 sq km Tromelin Island: total: 1 sq km land: 1 sq km water: 0 sq km Tunisia: total: 163,610 sq km land: 155,360 sq km water: 8,250 sq km Turkey: total: 780,580 sq km land: 770,760 sq km water: 9,820 sq km Turkmenistan: total: 488,100 sq km land: 488,100 sq km water: 0 sq km Turks and Caicos Islands: total: 430 sq km land: 430 sq km water: 0 sq km Tuvalu: total: 26 sq km land: 26 sq km water: 0 sq km Uganda: total: 236,040 sq km land: 199,710 sq km water: 36,330 sq km Ukraine: total: 603,700 sq km land: 603,700 sq km water: 0 sq km United Arab Emirates: total: 82,880 sq km land: 82,880 sq km water: 0 sq km United Kingdom: total: 244,820 sq km land: 241,590 sq km water: 3,230 sq km note: includes Rockall and Shetland Islands United States: total: 9,629,091 sq km land: 9,158,960 sq km water: 470,131 sq km note: includes only the 50 states and District of Columbia Uruguay: total: 176,220 sq km land: 173,620 sq km water: 2,600 sq km Uzbekistan: total: 447,400 sq km land: 425,400 sq km water: 22,000 sq km Vanuatu: total: 12,200 sq km land: 12,200 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes more than 80 islands Venezuela: total: 912,050 sq km land: 882,050 sq km water: 30,000 sq km Vietnam: total: 329,560 sq km land: 325,360 sq km water: 4,200 sq km Virgin Islands: total: 352 sq km land: 349 sq km water: 3 sq km Wake Island: total: 6.5 sq km land: 6.5 sq km water: 0 sq km Wallis and Futuna: total: 274 sq km land: 274 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Ile Uvea (Wallis Island), Ile Futuna (Futuna Island), Ile Alofi, and 20 islets West Bank: total: 5,860 sq km land: 5,640 sq km water: 220 sq km note: includes West Bank, Latrun Salient, and the northwest quarter of the Dead Sea, but excludes Mt. Scopus; East Jerusalem and Jerusalem
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Geography South Africa Location: Southern Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Geographic coordinates: 29 00 S, 24 00 E Map references: Africa Area: total: 1,219,912 sq km land: 1,219,912 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Prince Edward Islands (Marion Island and Prince Edward Island) Area - comparative: slightly less than twice the size of Texas Land boundaries: total: 4,862 km border countries: Botswana 1,840 km, Lesotho 909 km, Mozambique 491 km, Namibia 967 km, Swaziland 430 km, Zimbabwe 225 km Coastline: 2,798 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to edge of the continental margin Climate: mostly semiarid; subtropical along east coast; sunny days, cool nights Terrain: vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain Elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Njesuthi 3,408 m Natural resources: gold, chromium, antimony, coal, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, tin, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium, salt, natural gas Land use: arable land: 12.1% permanent crops: 0.79% other: 87.11% (2005)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

IV THE FATAL SCRIPT I had no real opportunity to study Manton when he greeted us upon our arrival, and at that time neither Kennedy nor I possessed even a passing realization of the problem before us.
— from The Film Mystery by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

If it is some wounded man, they bear him to the hospital; if the man is dead, to a chapel: the nobleman and the day labourer, clothed with the same robe, support together the same litter, and the link which unites these two extremes of society is some sick pauper, who, knowing neither, is praying equally for both.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 by Various

SOUTH AFRICA @South Africa:Geography Location: Southern Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Geographic coordinates: 29 00 S, 24 00 E Map references: Africa Area: total: 1,219,912 sq km land: 1,219,912 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Prince Edward Islands (Marion Island and Prince Edward Island) Area-comparative: slightly less than twice the size of Texas Land boundaries: total: 4,750 km border countries: Botswana 1,840 km, Lesotho 909 km, Mozambique 491 km, Namibia 855 km, Swaziland 430 km, Zimbabwe 225 km Coastline: 2,798 km Maritime claims: continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: mostly semiarid; subtropical along east coast; sunny days, cool nights Terrain: vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain Elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Njesuthi 3,408 m Natural resources: gold, chromium, antimony, coal, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, tin, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium, salt, natural gas Land use: arable land: 10% permanent crops: 1% permanent pastures: 67% forests and woodland: 7% other: 15% (1993 est.)
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

@South Africa:Geography Location: Southern Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Geographic coordinates: 29 00 S, 24 00 E Map references: Africa Area: total: 1,219,912 sq km land: 1,219,912 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Prince Edward Islands (Marion Island and Prince Edward Island) Area - comparative: slightly less than twice the size of Texas Land boundaries: total: 4,750 km border countries: Botswana 1,840 km, Lesotho 909 km, Mozambique 491 km, Namibia 855 km, Swaziland 430 km, Zimbabwe 225 km Coastline: 2,798 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 nm continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation exclusive economic zone: 200 nm territorial sea: 12 nm Climate: mostly semiarid; subtropical along east coast; sunny days, cool nights Terrain: vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain Elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Njesuthi 3,408 m Natural resources: gold, chromium, antimony, coal, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, tin, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium, salt, natural gas Land use: arable land: 10% permanent crops: 1% permanent pastures: 67% forests and woodland: 7% other: 15% (1993 est.)
— from The 2000 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Geography South Africa Location: Southern Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Geographic coordinates: 29 00 S, 24 00 E Map references: Africa Area: total: 1,219,912 sq km land: 1,219,912 sq km note: includes Prince Edward Islands (Marion Island and Prince Edward Island) water: 0 sq km Area - comparative: slightly less than twice the size of Texas Land boundaries: total: 4,862 km border countries: Botswana 1,840 km, Lesotho 909 km, Mozambique 491 km, Namibia 967 km, Swaziland 430 km, Zimbabwe 225 km Coastline: 2,798 km Maritime claims: contiguous zone: 24 NM territorial sea: 12 NM continental shelf: 200 NM or to edge of the continental margin exclusive economic zone: 200 NM Climate: mostly semiarid; subtropical along east coast; sunny days, cool nights Terrain: vast interior plateau rimmed by rugged hills and narrow coastal plain Elevation extremes: lowest point: Atlantic Ocean 0 m highest point: Njesuthi 3,408 m Natural resources: gold, chromium, antimony, coal, iron ore, manganese, nickel, phosphates, tin, uranium, gem diamonds, platinum, copper, vanadium, salt, natural gas Land use: arable land: 12% permanent crops: 1% other: 87% (1998 est.)
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

1,390 sq km Saint Barthelemy 21 sq km Saint Helena total: 413 sq km land: Saint Helena Island 122 sq km; Ascension Island 90 sq km; Tristan da Cunha island group 201 sq km water: 0 sq km Saint Kitts and Nevis total: 261 sq km (Saint Kitts 168 sq km; Nevis 93 sq km) land: 261 sq km water: 0 sq km Saint Lucia total: 616 sq km land: 606 sq km water: 10 sq km Saint Martin total: 54.4 sq km land: 54.4 sq km water: NEGL Saint Pierre and Miquelon total: 242 sq km land: 242 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes eight small islands in the Saint Pierre and the Miquelon groups Saint Vincent and the Grenadines total: 389 sq km (Saint Vincent 344 sq km) land: 389 sq km water: 0 sq km Samoa total: 2,944 sq km land: 2,934 sq km water: 10 sq km San Marino total: 61.2 sq km land: 61.2 sq km water: 0 sq km Sao Tome and Principe total: 1,001 sq km land: 1,001 sq km water: 0 sq km Saudi Arabia total: 2,149,690 sq km land: 2,149,690 sq km water: 0 sq km Senegal total: 196,190 sq km land: 192,000 sq km water: 4,190 sq km Serbia total: 77,474 sq km land: 77,474 sq km water: 0 sq km Seychelles total: 455 sq km land: 455 sq km water: 0 sq km Sierra Leone total: 71,740 sq km land: 71,620 sq km water: 120 sq km Singapore total: 692.7 sq km land: 682.7 sq km water: 10 sq km Slovakia total: 48,845 sq km land: 48,800 sq km water: 45 sq km Slovenia total: 20,273 sq km land: 20,151 sq km water: 122 sq km Solomon Islands total: 28,450 sq km land: 27,540 sq km water: 910 sq km Somalia total: 637,657 sq km land: 627,337 sq km water: 10,320 sq km South Africa total: 1,219,912 sq km land: 1,219,912 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Prince Edward Islands (Marion Island and Prince Edward Island) South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands total: 3,903 sq km land: 3,903 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Shag Rocks, Black Rock, Clerke Rocks, South Georgia Island, Bird Island, and the South Sandwich Islands, which consist of 11 islands Southern Ocean total: 20.327 million sq km note: includes Amundsen Sea, Bellingshausen Sea, part of the Drake Passage, Ross Sea, a small part of the Scotia Sea, Weddell Sea, and other tributary water bodies Spain total: 504,782 sq km land: 499,542 sq km water: 5,240 sq km note: there are two autonomous cities - Ceuta and Melilla - and 17 autonomous communities including Balearic Islands and Canary Islands, and three small Spanish possessions off the coast of Morocco - Islas Chafarinas, Penon de Alhucemas, and Penon de Velez de la Gomera Spratly Islands total: less than 5 sq km land: less than 5 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes 100 or so islets, coral reefs, and sea mounts scattered over an area of nearly 410,000 sq km of the central South China Sea Sri Lanka total: 65,610 sq km land: 64,740 sq km water: 870 sq km Sudan total: 2,505,810 sq km land: 2.376 million sq km water: 129,810 sq km Suriname total: 163,270 sq km land: 161,470 sq km water: 1,800 sq km Svalbard total: 61,020 sq km land: 61,020 sq km water: 0 sq km note: includes Spitsbergen and Bjornoya (Bear Island)
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Geography ::South Africa Location: Southern Africa, at the southern tip of the continent of Africa Geographic coordinates: 29 00 S, 24 00 E Map references: Africa Area: total: 1,219,090 sq km country comparison to the world: 25 land: 1,214,470 sq km water: 4,620 sq km note: includes Prince Edward Islands (Marion Island and Prince Edward Island) Area - comparative: slightly less than twice the size of Texas Land boundaries: total: 4,862 km border countries: Botswana 1,840 km, Lesotho 909 km, Mozambique 491 km, Namibia 967 km, Swaziland 430 km, Zimbabwe 225 km Coastline: 2,798 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: 200 nm or to edge of the continental margin Climate: mostly semiarid; subtropical along eas
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency