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Hermanus (Afrikaans: [ɦærˈmɑːnœs]; [1] originally called Hermanuspietersfontein, but shortened in 1902 as the name was too long for the postal service [2]), is a town on the southern coast of the Western Cape province of South Africa.
Map of the provinces of South Africa, 1910–1976. Map of the provinces of South Africa, 1976–1994. This article lists the administrators of former South African provinces. It includes officials who headed various provinces in the period from 1910 to 1994, when South Africa was administratively divided into four provinces:
This is a list of outlines of present-day nations, states, and dependencies. Countries are listed in bold under their respective pages, whereas territories and dependencies are not. Disputed and unrecognized countries are italicized.
The Flag of South Africa The Coat of arms of South Africa An enlargeable map of South Africa. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to South Africa: South Africa – A sovereign country located at the southern tip of Africa. [1] It’s coast stretches 2,798 kilometres [2] and borders both the Atlantic and Indian ...
A map showing South Africa's cities, main towns, selected villages, rivers, and its highest peak. This is a list of rivers in South Africa. It is quite common to find the Afrikaans word -rivier as part of the name. Another common suffix is "-kamma", from the Khoisan term for "river" [1] (often tautologically the English term "river" is added to ...
From Hermanus, the route continues eastwards, bypassing the Klein River Lagoon, to reach Stanford, where it turns to the south again, meeting the coast at Gansbaai. From Gansbaai, it continues east-south-east along the coast, bypassing Hydra Bay and Pearly Beach , to end in open countryside at Die Dam, close to the entrance to the Quoin Point ...
The Western Cape (Xhosa: iNtshona-Koloni; Afrikaans: Wes-Kaap [ˈvɛskɑːp]) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.It is the fourth largest of the nine provinces with an area of 129,449 square kilometres (49,981 sq mi), and the third most populous, with an estimated 7 million inhabitants in 2020. [8]
This is a list of countries and territories by the United Nations geoscheme, including 193 UN member states, two UN observer states (the Holy See [note 1] and the State of Palestine), two states in free association with New Zealand (the Cook Islands and Niue), and 49 non-sovereign dependencies or territories, as well as Western Sahara (a disputed territory whose sovereignty is contested) and ...