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This is a list of suburbs in the City of Cape Town, South Africa, which includes the city of Cape Town, as well as its surrounding suburbs and exurbs. [1] Each section on this page separates a specific region of Cape Town, in alphabetical order. Within each region, there is a table, with its respective suburbs listed in alphabetical order.
The suburb includes the official residence of the Archbishop of Cape Town, which is known as Bishopscourt, [2] whence comes the name of the suburb. [3] In 2015, it was ranked the sixth richest suburb in South Africa with an average property value of R11 million. [4] The area hosts a large number of foreign consulates and embassies in Cape Town. [5]
Cape Town's Southern Suburbs lie to the Southeast of the slopes of Table Mountain within rich valleys and vast plains reaching from just south of the Table Bay industrial neighbourhoods in the north to the False Bay coastal suburbs and the Cape Peninsula cliffs to the south, and are crossed North-South by the M3 and M5 freeways. In general ...
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Langa is a township in Cape Town, South Africa.Its name in Xhosa means "sun".The township was initially built in phases before being formally opened in 1927. [2] [3] It was developed as a result of South Africa's 1923 Urban Areas Act (more commonly known as the "pass laws"), which was designed to force Africans to move from their homes into segregated locations.
Tamboerskloof is a neighbourhood and suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. [3] It lies on the slopes of Lion's Head and Signal Hill , adjacent to the neighbourhoods of Gardens and Bo-Kaap . Tamboerskloof is one of the contiguous group of neighbourhoods referred to as the City Bowl .
Mowbray is well-connected to the road network, being bounded (as described above) by the M3, M5 and N2 freeways. Apart from the freeways, the main roads in the suburb are Main Road (M4) and Liesbeeck Parkway (M57), which run north-south; Victoria Road/St. Peter's Road/Durban Road/Klipfontein Road (M18) which runs west-east; and Raapenberg Road (M52) which runs to the north-east towards Pinelands.
In the 1860s the estate was leased to the British Colonial Government so as to act as a country residence for Cape governors, during which time it is thought that Newlands Village was established. [3] A railway line to Cape Town central, extended from Salt River, was opened in the neighborhood on 19 December 1864. [3]