Swaziland is a small landlocked monarchy in South Africa and happens to be the smallest country in Africa.
It is bordered by Mozambique to the east and South Africa to the south-east, south, west and north.
The coordinates for Swaziland are 26.3167° S, 31.1333°
The terrain here is mostly mountainous and hilly with a few sloping plains. Lovely!
The total land area of Swaziland is 6,704 square miles (17,363 square kilometres).
Residents here enjoy a tropical to near temperate climate. Sounds perfect to us!
Swaziland’s population was only 1.25 million in 2013.
Rather unusually, Swaziland has two capitals! They are Mbabane (administrative) and Lobamba (royal and legislative) and have a population of 282,734 and 25,968 respectively.
The average life span here is 49 years.
Swaziland is one of the few remaining absolute monarchies, meaning it does not have any political parties and is ruled by one person – King Mswati III.
The official language of Swaziland is Swazi; but fear not, because English is also widely spoken!
Lilangeni is the official currency here which is equal to the South African Rand.
Swaziland grows sugarcane, corn, tobacco and cotton and rears cattle.
Its industry consists of wood pulp, coal mining, sugar and soft drink concentrates.
