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  2. Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    Cape Town [a] is the legislative capital of South Africa. It is the country's oldest city and the seat of the Parliament of South Africa. [11] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [12] The city is part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality .

  3. Cape of Good Hope - Wikipedia

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    The Cape of Good Hope ( Afrikaans: Kaap die Goeie Hoop [ˌkɑːp di ˌχujə ˈɦuəp]) [a] is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast of the Cape Peninsula in South Africa . A common misconception is that the Cape of Good Hope is the southern tip of Africa, based on the misbelief that the Cape was the dividing point between the Atlantic and ...

  4. List of slums in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    A shantytown in Cape Flats, Cape Town. Slums in South Africa exist in all major cities. There are also rural informal settlements. The slums are listed below under the city or town they are nearest to.

  5. Cape Peninsula - Wikipedia

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    Map showing the Cape Peninsula, illustrating the positions of the Cape Town City Centre, Table Mountain, the main mountains and peaks that make up the Peninsula, and the Cape of Good Hope. The courses of the warm Agulhas current (red) along the east coast of South Africa, and the cold Benguela current (blue) along the west coast.

  6. Cape Point - Wikipedia

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    Cape Point ( Afrikaans: Kaappunt) is a promontory at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula, a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north-south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip of the African continent in South Africa. Table Mountain and the city of Cape Town are close to the northern extremity of the same ...

  7. Cape Province - Wikipedia

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    The Province of the Cape of Good Hope [2] ( Afrikaans: Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop ), commonly referred to as the Cape Province ( Afrikaans: Kaapprovinsie) and colloquially as The Cape ( Afrikaans: Die Kaap ), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa. It encompassed the old Cape Colony, as well ...

  8. History of Cape Town - Wikipedia

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    Sources: 1658–1904, [1] 1950–1990, [2] 1996, [3] 2001, and 2011 Census; [4] 2007, [5] 2016 Census estimates. [6] The area known today as Cape Town has no written history before it was first mentioned by Portuguese explorer Bartholomeu Dias in 1488. The German anthropologist Theophilus Hahn recorded that the original name of the area was ...

  9. South Africa - Wikipedia

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    South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA or R.S.A.), is the southernmost country in Africa.It is bounded to the south by 2,798 kilometres (1,739 mi) of coastline that stretches along the South Atlantic and Indian Oceans; to the north by the neighbouring countries of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe; and to the east and northeast by Mozambique and Eswatini.

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