Cape Point
Cape Point is a promontory at the southeast corner of the Cape Peninsula, a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north–south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip of the African continent in South Africa. Table Mountain and the city of Cape Town are close to the northern extremity of the same peninsula.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Cape Point
- Type: Cape
- Description: headland in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Categories: headland and landform
- Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-34.3574° or 34° 21′ 27″ southLongitude
18.49779° or 18° 29′ 52″ eastElevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
4FQWJFVX+24OpenStreetMap ID
node 148732933OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cape
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Cape Point” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kaappunt”
- Armenian: “Քեյփ Փոյնթ”
- Azerbaijani: “Keyp-Poynt burnu”
- Bulgarian: “Кейп Пойнт”
- Catalan: “Cap Point”
- Cebuano: “Cape Point”
- Chinese: “開普角”
- Czech: “Cape Point”
- Dutch: “Cape Point”
- Dutch: “Kaappunt”
- Finnish: “Cape Point”
- French: “Cape Point”
- French: “Pointe du Cap”
- Georgian: “კეიპ-პოინტი”
- German: “Cape Point”
- German: “Kap-Spitze”
- Hebrew: “קייפ פוינט”
- Hindi: “केप प्वाइंट”
- Indonesian: “Cape Point”
- Indonesian: “Tanjung Point”
- Italian: “Punta del Capo”
- Japanese: “ケープ・ポイント”
- Japanese: “ケープ岬”
- Kabardian: “Кейп-Пойнт”
- Luxembourgish: “Kap Point”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Point”
- Norwegian: “Cape Point”
- Polish: “Cape Point”
- Romanian: “Punctul Capului”
- Russian: “Кейп-Пойнт”
- Slovak: “Cape Point”
- Spanish: “Cabo Point”
- Swedish: “Kapudden”
- Tamil: “கேப் முனை”
- Turkish: “Cape Point”
- Ukrainian: “Кейп-Пойнт”
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