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South Africa

The retained Wikidata revision records ZA as the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of South Africa.

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Permanent entity ID: 01a08166-c44a-7a19-9b1c-08c49bcd985e
Entity type: Country
Canonical name: South Africa
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Language: English (en)

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WikidataWikidata Q258 (revision 2535438438)

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