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Cape Town International Airport

Cape Town International Airport is the primary international airport serving the city of , and is the second-busiest airport in South Africa and fourth-busiest in Africa.
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  • Type: Aerodrome
  • Description: airport in Cape Town, South Africa
  • Also known as: “Cape Town Airport”, “CPT”, “D.F. Malan Airport”, and “FACT”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Blikkiesdorp and Mzoli’s.

Residential area
Photo: Frombelow, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area in Delft, Cape Town, better known by its nickname , is a relocation camp made up of corrugated iron shacks.

Pub
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Mzoli's was a butchery in , a township on the outskirts of , South Africa. Since Mzoli's opened in early 2003, the restaurant had become a popular gathering spot for Cape Town residents and a tourist attraction.

School
is an Afrikaans/English mixed medium school in , , . As of 2006 it had 1,225 students and was staffed by 35 educators.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nyanga and Crossroads.

Suburb
is a township in the , . Its name in Xhosa means "moon" and it is one of the oldest black townships in Cape Town. In 1948, was declared a coloured-area, resulting in the forced removal of black residents, who were forced to settle in near Langa.

Suburb
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is a high-density township in the , . It is situated near Cape Town International Airport and borders Nyanga, Philippi, Heideveld, and . is one of greater Cape Town's largest townships.

Suburb
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is a township in , and is around 20km from . Its name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for our pride / our hope. The area was the third township to be established in Cape Town, after and Langa.

Cape Town International Airport

Latitude
-33.97171° or 33° 58′ 18″ south
Longitude
18.60396° or 18° 36′ 14″ east
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
Operator
Airports Company South Africa
IATA airport code
CPT
ICAO airport code
FACT
Open location code
4FRW2JH3+8H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 66024072
Open­Street­Map feature
aeroway=­aerodrome
Geo­Names ID
3368972
Wiki­data ID
Q854130
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Cape Town International Airport” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Internasionale Lughawe van Kaapstad”
  • Afrikaans: “Kaapstad Internasionale Lughawe”
  • Arabic: “مطار كيب تاون الدولي”
  • Arabic: “مطار كيب تاون”
  • Arabic: “مطار كيب تون الدولي”
  • Armenian: “Քեյփթաունի միջազգային օդանավակայան”
  • Bengali: “কেপ টাউন আন্তর্জাতিক বিমানবন্দর”
  • Cebuano: “Cape Town International Airport”
  • Chinese: “开普敦国际机场”
  • Chinese: “開普敦國際機場”
  • Czech: “Mezinárodní letiště Kapské Město”
  • Danish: “Cape Town International Airport”
  • Dutch: “Cape Town International Airport”
  • Dutch: “Capetown International Airport”
  • Dutch: “Kaapstad airport”
  • Dutch: “Kaapstad Internasionale Lughawe”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مطار كيب تاون”
  • Esperanto: “Internacia Flughaveno Kaburbo”
  • Estonian: “Kaplinna rahvusvaheline lennujaam”
  • Finnish: “Kapkaupungin kansainvälinen lentoasema”
  • French: “Aeroport international de cape town”
  • French: “Aéroport international de Cape Town”
  • French: “Aeroport international du Cap”
  • French: “aéroport international du Cap”
  • French: “Aéroport international du Cap”
  • French: “Cape Town International Airport”
  • French: “Cape Town South Africa Cape Town International Airport”
  • French: “CPT”
  • French: “D.F. Malan”
  • French: “DF Malan Airport”
  • French: “FACT”
  • German: “Cape Town International Airport”
  • German: “Capetown International Airport”
  • German: “CPT”
  • German: “FACT”
  • German: “Flughafen Kapstadt”
  • German: “Internationaler Flughafen Kapstadt”
  • German: “Kapstadt International”
  • Hausa: “Filin jirgin saman Cape Town”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבין-לאומי קייפטאון”
  • Hebrew: “נמל התעופה הבינלאומי קייפטאון”
  • Hindi: “डी० एफ मलान हवाई अड्डा”
  • Hungarian: “Fokvárosi nemzetközi repülőtér”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Udara Internasional Cape Town”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Cape Town D.F. Malan”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Cape Town”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto di Città del Capo”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto Internazionale di Cape Town”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto internazionale di Città del Capo”
  • Italian: “Aeroporto Internazionale di Città del Capo”
  • Italian: “Cape Town International Airport”
  • Japanese: “ケープタウン国際空港”
  • Japanese: “ケープタウン空港”
  • Korean: “케이프타운 국제 공항”
  • Korean: “케이프타운 국제공항”
  • Malay: “Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Cape Town”
  • Marathi: “केप टाउन आंतरराष्ट्रीय विमानतळ”
  • Newari: “डी॰ एफ॰ मलान विमानस्थल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Town internasjonale lufthavn”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “CPT”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “FACT”
  • Norwegian: “Cape Town internasjonale lufthavn”
  • Persian: “CPT”
  • Persian: “FACT”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه بین‌المللی کیپ‌تاون”
  • Persian: “فرودگاه بین‌المللی کیپتاون”
  • Polish: “Port lotniczy Kapsztad”
  • Portuguese: “Aeroporto Internacional da Cidade do Cabo”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Cape Town”
  • Romanian: “Aeroportul Internațional Cape Town”
  • Russian: “Кейптаун”
  • Russian: “Международный аэропорт Кейптаун”
  • Slovenian: “Cape Town International Airport”
  • Slovenian: “CPT”
  • Slovenian: “D.F. Malan Airport”
  • Slovenian: “FACT”
  • Slovenian: “Mednarodno letališče Cape Town”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de Ciudad del Cabo”
  • Spanish: “Aeropuerto Internacional de la Ciudad del Cabo”
  • Spanish: “FACT”
  • Swedish: “Cape Town International Airport”
  • Swedish: “Kapstadens internationella flygplats”
  • Tajik: “Фурудгоҳи Байн‌алмиллалии Кейп Таун”
  • Thai: “ท่าอากาศยานนานาชาติเคปทาวน์”
  • Turkish: “Cape Town Uluslararası Havalimanı”
  • Ukrainian: “Міжнародний аеропорт Кейптаун”
  • Vietnamese: “Sân bay quốc tế Cape Town”
  • “CPT”
  • “FACT”

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