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Eswatini
Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...
(officially the Kingdom of Eswatini) – is a small,
landlocked
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,
sovereign country located in
Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the African continent, south of the Congo and Tanzania. The physical location is the large part of Africa to the south of the extensive Congo River basin. Southern Africa is home to a number of ...
, bordered by
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. It is bounded to the south by of coastline that stretch along the Atlantic Ocean, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the ...
on three sides except to the east, where it borders
Mozambique
Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...
.
The country, inhabited primarily by
Bantu-speaking Swazi people, is named after the 19th-century king
Mswati II
King Mswati II (Born:1820–Died:1868), also known as Mswati and Mavuso III, was the king of Eswatini between 1850 and 1868. He was also the eponym of Eswatini. Mswati is considered to be one of the greatest fighting kings of Eswatini.
Under h ...
, from whom the people also take their name.
General reference
*
Pronunciation
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:
* Common English country name: Eswatini
* Official English country name: The
Kingdom of Eswatini
* Common
endonym
An endonym (from Greek: , 'inner' + , 'name'; also known as autonym) is a common, ''native'' name for a geographical place, group of people, individual person, language or dialect, meaning that it is used inside that particular place, group, o ...
(s):
eSwatini
Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...
* Official endonym(s): The
Kingdom of Eswatini
*
Adjectival(s): Swazi
*
Demonym
A demonym (; ) or gentilic () is a word that identifies a group of people (inhabitants, residents, natives) in relation to a particular place. Demonyms are usually derived from the name of the place (hamlet, village, town, city, region, province, ...
(s): Swazi
*
ISO country codes
ISO 3166-1 (''Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes'') is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. It ...
: SZ, SWZ, 748
*
ISO region codes
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: See
ISO 3166-2:SZ
*
Country code top-level domain:
.sz
Geography of Eswatini
Geography of Eswatini
* Eswatini is: a
landlocked country
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* Location:
**
Eastern Hemisphere
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and
Southern Hemisphere
**
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
***
Southern Africa
Southern Africa is the southernmost subregion of the African continent, south of the Congo and Tanzania. The physical location is the large part of Africa to the south of the extensive Congo River basin. Southern Africa is home to a number of ...
**
Time zone
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:
South African Standard Time
South African Standard Time (SAST) is the time zone used by all of South Africa as well as Eswatini and Lesotho. The zone is two hours ahead of UTC ( UTC+02:00) and is the same as Central Africa Time. Daylight saving time is not observed in eith ...
(
UTC+02)
** Extreme points of Eswatini
*** High:
Emlembe
*** Low:
Maputo River
The Maputo River (Portuguese ''Rio Maputo''), also called Great Usutu River, Lusutfu River, or Suthu River, is a river in South Africa, Eswatini, and Mozambique. The name ''Suthu'' refers to Basotho people who lived near the source of the river ...
** Land boundaries: 535 km
:: 430 km
:: 105 km
:* Coastline: ''none''
* Population:: 1,467,152 -
154th most populous country
*
* Area: 17,364 km
2
*
Atlas of Eswatini
Environment of Eswatini
*
Climate of Eswatini
*
Ecoregions in Eswatini
*
Protected areas of Eswatini
Protected areas of Eswatini include any geographical area protected for a specific use inside the landlocked country of Eswatini, in southern Africa.
Within Eswatini there is a mix of national, private and community-owned protected areas. They in ...
**
National parks of Eswatini
*
Wildlife of Eswatini
** Fauna of Eswatini
***
Birds of Eswatini
***
Mammals of Eswatini
Natural geographic features of Eswatini
* Glaciers in Eswatini: none
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and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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* Rivers of Eswatini
* World Heritage Sites in Eswatini: None
Regions of Eswatini
Regions of Eswatini
*Hhohho
Hhohho () is a region of Eswatini, located in the north western part of the country. Hhohho was named after the capital of King Mswati II, who expanded the Swazi territory to the north and west, taking in the districts of Barberton, Nelspruit, ...
* Lubombo
* Manzini
*Shiselweni
Shiselweni is a region of Eswatini, located in the south of the country. It has an area of 3,786.71 km² and a population of 204,111 (2017). Its administrative center is Nhlangano. It borders Lubombo in the northeast and Manzini Region in ...
Ecoregions of Eswatini
List of ecoregions in Eswatini
* Ecoregions in Eswatini
Administrative divisions of Eswatini
Administrative divisions of Eswatini
* Regions of Eswatini
Demography of Eswatini
Demographics of Eswatini
Government and politics of Eswatini
Politics of Eswatini
Eswatini is an absolute monarchy with constitutional provisions and Swazi law and Custom. The head of state is the king or '' Ngwenyama'' (lit. ''Lion''), currently King Mswati III, who ascended to the throne in 1986 after the death of his father ...
* Form of government
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In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government is a ...
: Absolute diarchy
Diarchy (from Greek , ''di-'', "double", and , ''-arkhía'', "ruled"),Occasionally misspelled ''dyarchy'', as in the ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' article on the colonial British institution duarchy, or duumvirate (from Latin ', "the office of ...
* Capital of Eswatini: Lobamba (royal and legislative), Mbabane (administrative)
* Elections in Eswatini
* List of political parties in Eswatini
Branches of the government of Eswatini
Government of Eswatini
Executive branch of the government of Eswatini
* Head of state
A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona who officially embodies a state Foakes, pp. 110–11 " he head of statebeing an embodiment of the State itself or representatitve of its international persona." in its unity and l ...
: King of Eswatini,
* Head of government
The head of government is the highest or the second-highest official in the executive branch of a sovereign state, a federated state, or a self-governing colony, autonomous region, or other government who often presides over a cabinet, a gr ...
: Prime Minister of Eswatini
This is a list of prime ministers of Eswatini () since the formation of the post in 1967.
Eleven people have been Prime Minister of Eswatini, plus seven acting prime ministers. One person, Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, held two non-consecutive te ...
,
Legislative branch of the government of Eswatini
* Parliament of Eswatini ( bicameral)
**Upper house
An upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house.''Bicameralism'' (1997) by George Tsebelis The house formally designated as the upper house is usually smaller and often has more restric ...
: Senate of Eswatini
The Senate of Eswatini is the upper chamber of the country's bicameral Parliament. The Senate may debate or pass a bill, with the exception of a "money bill", which must first be introduced in the lower chamber, the House of Assembly.
History
...
** Lower house
A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. Despite its official position "below" the upper house, in many legislatures worldwide, the lower house has come to wield more power or oth ...
: House of Commons of Eswatini
Judicial branch of the government of Eswatini
Court system of Eswatini
Foreign relations of Eswatini
Foreign relations of Eswatini
* List of diplomatic missions in Eswatini
* Diplomatic missions of Eswatini
International organization membership
The Kingdom of Eswatini is a member of:[
*]African, Caribbean, and Pacific Group of States
The Organisation of African, Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS) is a group of countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific that was created by the Georgetown Agreement in 1975. Formerly known as African, Caribbean and Pacific Group o ...
(ACP)
* African Development Bank Group (AfDB)
*African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the Africa ...
(AU)
*Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is a regional economic community in Africa with twenty-one member states stretching from Tunisia to Eswatini. COMESA was formed in December 1994, replacing a Preferential Trade Area whic ...
(COMESA)
* Commonwealth of Nations
*Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)french: link=no, Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; it, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura is an intern ...
(FAO)
*Group of 77
The Group of 77 (G77) at the United Nations (UN) is a coalition of 134 developing countries, designed to promote its members' collective economic interests and create an enhanced joint negotiating capacity in the United Nations. There were 77 fou ...
(G77)
*International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) is an international financial institution, established in 1944 and headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, that is the lending arm of World Bank Group. The IBRD offers ...
(IBRD)
*International Civil Aviation Organization
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO, ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates the principles and techniques of international air navigation, and fosters the planning and development of international a ...
(ICAO)
*International Criminal Police Organization
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(Interpol)
*International Development Association
The International Development Association (IDA) (french: link=no, Association internationale de développement) is an international financial institution which offers concessional loans and grants to the world's poorest developing countries. T ...
(IDA)
* (IFRCS)
*International Finance Corporation
The International Finance Corporation (IFC) is an international financial institution that offers investment, advisory, and asset-management services to encourage private-sector development in less developed countries. The IFC is a member of t ...
(IFC)
*International Fund for Agricultural Development
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD; french: link=no, Fonds international de développement agricole (FIDA)) is an international financial institution and a specialised agency of the United Nations that works to addre ...
(IFAD)
*International Labour Organization
The International Labour Organization (ILO) is a United Nations agency whose mandate is to advance social and economic justice by setting international labour standards. Founded in October 1919 under the League of Nations, it is the first and o ...
(ILO)
*International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster glob ...
(IMF)
*International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
(IOC)
*International Organization for Standardization
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(ISO) (correspondent)
*International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement
The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 97 million volunteers, members and staff worldwide. It was founded to protect human life and health, to ensure respect for all human beings, an ...
(ICRM)
*International Telecommunication Union
The International Telecommunication Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for many matters related to information and communication technologies. It was established on 17 May 1865 as the International Telegraph Union ...
(ITU)
*International Telecommunications Satellite Organization
The International Telecommunications Satellite Organization (ITSO) is an intergovernmental organization charged with overseeing the public service obligations of Intelsat, which was privatized in 2001.
It incorporates the principle set forth i ...
(ITSO)
*International Trade Union Confederation
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC); german: Internationaler Gewerkschaftsbund (IGB), link=no; es, Confederación Sindical Internacional (CSI), link=no. is the world's largest trade union federation.
History
The federation w ...
(ITUC)
*Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
The Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) is an international financial institution which offers political risk insurance and credit enhancement guarantees. These guarantees help investors protect foreign direct investments against ...
(MIGA)
* Nonaligned Movement (NAM)
*Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
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(OPCW)
*Permanent Court of Arbitration
The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is a non-UN intergovernmental organization located in The Hague, Netherlands. Unlike a judicial court in the traditional sense, the PCA provides services of arbitral tribunal to resolve disputes that aris ...
(PCA)
*Southern African Customs Union
The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is a customs union among five countries of Southern Africa: Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa. Its headquarters are in the Namibian capital, Windhoek. It was established in 1910.
Hi ...
(SACU)
*Southern African Development Community
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) is an inter-governmental organization headquartered in Gaborone, Botswana.
Its goal is to further regional socio-economic cooperation and integration as well as political and security coopera ...
(SADC)
*United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizi ...
(UN)
*United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
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(UNCTAD)
* (UNESCO)
*United Nations Industrial Development Organization
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) (French: Organisation des Nations unies pour le développement industriel; French/Spanish acronym: ONUDI) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that assists countries in e ...
(UNIDO)
*Universal Postal Union
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(UPU)
*World Customs Organization
The World Customs Organization (WCO) is an intergovernmental organization headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. The WCO works on customs-related matters including the development of international conventions, instruments, and tools on topics suc ...
(WCO)
*World Federation of Trade Unions
The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) is an international federation of trade unions established in 1945. Founded in the immediate aftermath of World War Two, the organization built on the pre-war legacy of the International Federation of ...
(WFTU)
*World Health Organization
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(WHO)
*World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; french: link=no, Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN). Pursuant to the 1967 Convention Establishin ...
(WIPO)
*World Meteorological Organization
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The WMO originated from the Internat ...
(WMO)
*World Tourism Organization
The World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) is the United Nations specialized agency entrusted with the promotion of responsible, sustainable and universally accessible tourism. Its headquarters are in Madrid, Spain. UNWTO is the leading internat ...
(UNWTO)
*World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is an intergovernmental organization that regulates and facilitates international trade. With effective cooperation
in the United Nations System, governments use the organization to establish, revise, and e ...
(WTO)
Law and order in Eswatini
Law of Eswatini
* Constitution of Eswatini
* Human rights in Eswatini
** LGBT rights in Eswatini
* Law enforcement in Eswatini
Military of Eswatini
Military of Eswatini
* Command
** Commander-in-chief:
* Forces
** Umbutfo Eswatini Defence Force
** Air Force of Eswatini
Local government in Eswatini
Local government in Eswatini
History of Eswatini
History of Eswatini
Artifacts indicating human activity dating back to the early Stone Age have been found in the Kingdom of Eswatini. The earliest known inhabitants of the region were Khoisan hunter-gatherers. Later, the population became predominantly Nguni dur ...
* Current events of Eswatini
Culture of Eswatini
Culture of Eswatini
* Cuisine of Eswatini
* Languages of Eswatini
* National symbols of Eswatini
**Coat of arms of Eswatini
The coat of arms of Eswatini is a coat of arms depicting various symbols for traditional Eswatini culture. The lion represents the King of Eswatini and the elephant represents the Queen-mother. They support a traditional Nguni shield which re ...
** Flag of Eswatini
The flag of Eswatini was adopted on October 6, 1968 after Eswatini (formerly known as Swaziland) gained independence from the British Empire one month before. The design by King Sobhuza II features a black and white shield, with a staff and two s ...
** National anthem of Eswatini
* People of Eswatini
* Prostitution in Eswatini
* Public holidays in Eswatini
* Religion in Eswatini
** Hinduism in Eswatini
** Islam in Eswatini
** Sikhism in Eswatini
* World Heritage Sites in Eswatini: None
Art in Eswatini
* Music of Eswatini
Media in Eswatini
* Swazi Media Commentary
Sports in Eswatini
Sports in Eswatini
* Football in Eswatini
* Eswatini at the Olympics
Economy and infrastructure of Eswatini
Economy of Eswatini
* Economic rank, by nominal GDP (2007): 150th (one hundred and fiftieth)
* Telecommunications in Eswatini
** Internet in Eswatini
* List of companies of Eswatini
* Currency of Eswatini: Swazi lilangeni (SZL)
* Health in Eswatini
* Mining in Eswatini
* Eswatini Stock Market
* Tourism in Eswatini
* Transport in Eswatini
** List of airports in Eswatini
** Rail transport in Eswatini
Education in Eswatini
Education in Eswatini Education in Eswatini includes pre-school, primary, secondary and high schools, for general education and training (GET), and universities and colleges at tertiary level.
Pre-school education is usually for children five years or younger. Primary ...
See also
* Eswatini
Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...
*List of international rankings
This is a list of international rankings.
By category
Agriculture
*List of largest producing countries of agricultural commodities
* List of countries by apple production
*List of countries by apricot production
* List of countries by artichoke p ...
* Member state of the Commonwealth of Nations
*Member state of the United Nations
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The criteria ...
* Outline of Africa
References
External links
The Government Of the Kingdom Of Eswatini
(official website)
Swaziland Travel Guide (Archived 2012)
Official Eswatini tourism website
*
*
Eswatini
''The World Factbook
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.
US State Department - ''Eswatini''
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Eswatini
Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...
Eswatini
Eswatini ( ; ss, eSwatini ), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and formerly named Swaziland ( ; officially renamed in 2018), is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its northeast and South Africa to its no ...
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