The area of 1,219.00 sq. km, is five times the size of the UK - or is the size of Germany, France, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands put together. But population of approximately 40 million, is approximately two-thirds of Britain's 59.3 million.

One half of the South African population lives in cities of more than 50,000 inhabitants, mainly in major urban areas. The rest of the country is rather sparsely populated.

Lion Sands Private Game Reserve is situated in the greater Kruger National Park conservancy area, Mpumalanga (Place of the Rising Sun) Province, which is approximately 22,000 km2 in size. Within this reserve there are no fences and the wildlife is able to traverse the areas freely. During the course of the next two years the area is to be expanded into the Trans Frontier Conservation Area - 155,000 km2, which will include areas within both Mozambique & Zimbabwe.