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Table Mountain ( Khoekhoe: Huriǂoaxa, lit. 'sea-emerging'; Afrikaans: Tafelberg) is a flat-topped mountain forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa. It is a significant tourist attraction, with many visitors using the cableway or hiking to the top. [ 3]
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 .
This is a list of cities and towns in the Western Cape province of South Africa. They are divided according to the districts in which they are located. Cape Metropole
Western Cape topology showing the Boland Mountains. The Boland ( Afrikaans pronunciation: [ˈbuəlant], meaning "highland" [1]) is a region of the Western Cape province of South Africa, situated to the northeast of Cape Town in the middle and upper courses of the Berg and Breede Rivers, around the Boland Mountains of the central Cape Fold Belt.
Map of the Cape of Good Hope in 1885 (blue). The areas of Griqualand West and Griqualand East were annexed to the Cape Colony around 1880. The Cape Colony ( Dutch: Kaapkolonie ), also known as the Cape of Good Hope, was a British colony in present-day South Africa named after the Cape of Good Hope. It existed from 1795 to 1802, and again from ...
South Africa. The Karoo ( / kəˈruə / kə-ROO-ə; from the Afrikaans borrowing of the South Khoekhoe !Orakobab or Khoemana word ǃ’Aukarob "Hard veld " [ 2][ 3]) is a semi- desert natural region of South Africa. No exact definition of what constitutes the Karoo is available, so its extent is also not precisely defined.
South of Ottosdal. Vaal River. Bloemhof Dam. 27°40′15″S25°37′40″E / 27.67083°S 25.62778°E / -27.67083; 25.62778 (Bamboesspruit mouth) Baviaanskloof River. L8. Western and Eastern Cape. North of Plettenberg Bay. Kouga River.
About 10,000 Dutch families, for various reasons, left for the north in search of new land, thereby opening up the interior of the country. Further political development occurred in 1840 when the Cape Town Municipality was formed. At its inception, the population stood at 20,016, of which 10,560 were white.