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Devil's Peak, Table Mountain and Lion's Head Satellite image of Cape Town showing the Cape Peninsula (left), Cape Flats and False Bay Satellite image 3D of the City Bowl and Table Mountain Cape Town is located at latitude 33.55° S (approximately the same as Sydney and Buenos Aires and equivalent to Casablanca and Los Angeles in the northern ...
Cape Town first received local self-government in 1839, with the promulgation of a municipal ordinance by the government of the Cape Colony. [4] When it was created, the Cape Town municipality governed only the central part of the city known as the City Bowl, and as the city expanded, new suburbs became new municipalities, until by 1902 there were 10 separate municipalities in the Cape ...
Postal code (street) 8001. The Foreshore is an area in Cape Town, South Africa, situated between the historic city centre and the modern Port of Cape Town. It is built on land reclaimed from Table Bay in the 1930s and 1940s in connection with the construction of the Duncan Dock to replace the old harbour. Much of the Foreshore area is occupied ...
The Cape of Good Hope is at the southern tip of the Cape Peninsula, about 2.3 kilometers (1.4mi) west and a little south of Cape Point on the south-east corner. Cape Town is about 50 kilometers to the north of the Cape, in Table Bay at the north end of the peninsula. The peninsula forms the western boundary of False Bay.
Camps Bay as seen from Table Mountain. Camps Bay (Afrikaans: Kampsbaai) is an affluent suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, and the small bay on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula after which it is named. In summer it attracts many South African and foreign visitors.
a city. capital of Western Cape. Population of Cape Town: 433,688 [citation needed] Area of Cape Town: 400.28 km 2 (154.55 sq mi) [citation needed] Cape Town. Kaapstad. Cape Town. Location within South Africa. Coordinates: 33°55′31″S 18°25′26″E.
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 ...
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 Town, which lies within the larger ...