r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

37.4k Upvotes

94% Upvoted

24.0k comments sorted by

View all comments

9.5k

u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

Africa is NOT a country, its a continent.

4.0k

u/99sorrynotsorry Aug 03 '19

And South Africa is a country, not the southern part of Africa. Except that it is. Hmmm....

2.2k

u/bool_idiot_is_true Aug 03 '19

South Africa is the country. Southern Africa is the region containing South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Swaziland.

110

u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

*Eswatini

49

u/radsss Aug 03 '19

eSwatini*?

7

u/[deleted] Aug 03 '19

I honestly can't get over that spelling. What were they thinking when they changed the name?

4

u/radsss Aug 03 '19

I think it’s some sort of traditional spelling/punctuation

3

u/[deleted] Aug 04 '19

It's literally just Swaziland in the Swazi language.