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Geological section of the Cape Peninsula and False Bay. Cape Town lies at the south-western corner of the continent of Africa. It is bounded to the south and west by the Atlantic Ocean, and to the north and east by various other municipalities in the Western Cape province of South Africa. The Cape Peninsula is a rocky and mountainous peninsula ...
Location map of Cape Town. / -34; 18.625. Module:Location map/data/South Africa Western Cape Greater Cape Town is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Cape Town. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
GMP per capita (2011) US$19,656 [9] Website. capetown.gov.za. 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. [12] It is the country's second-largest city, after Johannesburg, and the largest in the Western Cape. [13]
The Cape Peninsula (Afrikaans: Kaapse Skiereiland) is a generally mountainous peninsula that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean at the south-western extremity of the African continent. At the southern end of the peninsula are Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope. On the northern end is Table Mountain, overlooking Table Bay and the City Bowl of ...
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]
The mountains of the Boland to the rear. The oval (long axis about 25 km) roughly encompasses the Cape Flats. The Cape Flats (Afrikaans: Die Kaapse Vlakte) is an expansive, low-lying, flat area situated to the southeast of the central business district of Cape Town. The Cape Flats is also the name of an administrative region of the City of Cape ...
The coastline itself, being fairly smooth, provides only one good natural harbour at Saldanha Bay north of Cape Town. A lack of fresh water, however, prevented permanent settlement here until relatively recently. The Bay of Natal looks, on the map, like a good natural harbour, but, in its natural state, it was dry at low tide. [15]
English: Map of municipal boundaries in the Western Cape, as they will be after the municipal elections of 18 May 2011, with the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality highlighted in red. Based on File:Map of the Western Cape with municipalities blank (2011).svg.