Northern Cape
The Northern Cape, in the north-west corner of South Africa, is its largest and least populated province with only a population of 1,303,047. Distances between towns are enormous due to its sparse population.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kimberley and Orania.
Kimberley
Kimberley is the capital of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Amongst other things, it is famous for its Big Hole, the world's largest hand-dug excavation that was created when thousands of people searched for diamonds at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries.
Orania
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Orania is a town on the Orange River in the Northern Cape Karoo region of Northern Cape province. It was established in 1991 as an "Afrikaner-only" settlement, although anyone is welcome to visit.
Upington
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Upington is the next biggest city in South Africa's Northern Cape Province after Kimberley and a good starting point to the famous Augrabies Falls. The town is situated on the banks of the Orange River.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Namakwa and Northern Cape Karoo.
Namakwa
Namakwa is a district in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It is a land of ancient history, lava mountains that display impossible rock formations, and nature reserves that are full of game and birdlife.
Northern Cape Karoo
Karoo is a district in the Northern Cape of South Africa. The Karoo - “Place of Thirst” - is a boundless and mysterious area covered by vast sheep and game farms, where broad plains roll away toward distant koppies and multilayered mountains that seem to touch the indigo sky.
Diamond Fields
The Diamond Fields is in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It is one of the most important diamond-mining areas on Earth In 2001, this predominantly mining and agricultural district was renamed "Frances Baard District Municipality", in honor of an ethnic Tswana trade unionist, and organiser for the African National Congress Women's League.
Green Kalahari
The Green Kalahari is a district in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, bordering onto Namibia and Botswana. Previously known as Siyanda, the district was renamed "ZF Mgcawu District Municipality" in 2013 after Upington's first post-1994 democratically elected mayor, Zwelentlanga Fatman Mgcawu.
Kalahari
Kalahari, or Kgalagadi, is a district in the Northern Cape province of South Africa. It was renamed and formally John Taolo Gaetsewe District Municipality in 2008 after a freedom fighter and trade unionist.
Mokala National Park
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Mokala National Park is located at Modder River, South Africa. It is south-southwest of Kimberley and west of Cape Town…
Tankwa Karoo National Park
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Tankwa Karoo National Park is a national park in South Africa. The park lies about 70 km west of Sutherland and along the border of the Northern Cape and Western Cape in Succulent Karoo habitat; a biodiversity hotspot and one of the most arid regions of South Africa.
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo.
Northern Cape
- Type: State with 1,360,000 residents
- Description: province of South Africa
- Also known as: “Northern Cape Province”, “province of Northern Cape”, “Province of Northern Cape”, and “province of the Northern Cape”
- Neighbors: Eastern Cape, Free State, Hardap, North West Province, Western Cape, and ǁKaras
- Categories: province of South Africa and locality
- Location: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
-29.5734° or 29° 34′ 24″ southLongitude of center
21.2051° or 21° 12′ 19″ eastPopulation
1,360,000Elevation
1,084 metres (3,556 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 474842895OpenStreetMap feature
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Northern Cape” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Noord Kaap”
- Afrikaans: “Noord-Kaap provinsie”
- Afrikaans: “Noord-Kaap”
- Afrikaans: “Noordkaap”
- Arabic: “كيب الشمالية”
- Arabic: “كيب الشماليه”
- Armenian: “Հյուսիսային Կապ”
- Asturian: “Provincia Cabo del Norte”
- Asturian: “Provincia Cabu del Norte”
- Azerbaijani: “Şimal Burun əyaləti”
- Azerbaijani: “Şimali Keyp vilayəti”
- Basque: “Lurmutur Iparraldea”
- Belarusian: “Паўночна-Капская правінцыя”
- Bengali: “উত্তর কেপ প্রদেশ”
- Breton: “Kab an Norzh”
- Bulgarian: “Северен Кейп”
- Catalan: “Cap Septentrional”
- Catalan: “Província de Cap del Nord”
- Cebuano: “Northern Cape”
- Cebuano: “Province of Northern Cape”
- Chinese: “Pak Cape Séng”
- Chinese: “北开普”
- Chinese: “北开普省”
- Chinese: “北開普”
- Chinese: “北開普省”
- Croatian: “Northern Cape”
- Czech: “Severní Kapsko”
- Danish: “Nord-Kap”
- Danish: “Nord-Kapprovinsen”
- Danish: “Northern Cape”
- Dutch: “Noord-Kaap”
- Dutch: “Noordelijke Kaap”
- Esperanto: “Norda Kablando”
- Estonian: “Põhja-Kapimaa provints”
- Estonian: “Põhja-Kapimaa”
- Faroese: “Northern Cape”
- Finnish: “Northern Cape”
- Finnish: “Pohjois-Kap”
- French: “Cap du Nord”
- French: “Cap septentrional”
- French: “Cap-Nord”
- French: “Cap-Septentrional”
- Galician: “Cabo Setentrional”
- Georgian: “ჩრდილოეთი კაპლანდი”
- German: “Nordkap”
- German: “Nördliche Provinz”
- German: “Northern Cape”
- German: “ZA-NC”
- Greek: “Βορειότερο Ακρωτήριο”
- Gujarati: “નોર્ધન કેપ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pet Cape-sén”
- Hakka Chinese: “Pet Khôi-phú-sén”
- Hebrew: “הכף הצפוני”
- Hebrew: “פרובינציית הכף הצפונית”
- Hindi: “उत्तरी केप प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “उत्तरी केप”
- Hungarian: “Észak-Fokföld”
- Indonesian: “Northern Cape”
- Indonesian: “Tanjung Utara”
- Irish: “Rinn an Tuaiscirt”
- Irish: “Rinn Thuaidh”
- Irish: “Rinn Thuaisceartach”
- Italian: “Capo Settentrionale”
- Italian: “Northern Cape”
- Italian: “provincia del Capo Settentrionale”
- Italian: “Provincia del Capo Settentrionale”
- Japanese: “北ケープ州”
- Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರ ಕೇಪ್”
- Korean: “노던 케이프 주”
- Korean: “노던케이프주”
- Latin: “Caput boreale”
- Latin: “Promontorium Septemtrionale”
- Latvian: “Ziemeļkāpa”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Kapas”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Kyšulio provincija”
- Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Kyšulys”
- Macedonian: “Северен Кејп”
- Malay: “Northern Cape”
- Marathi: “नॉर्दर्न केप”
- Mazanderani: “شمالی کیپ اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pak Cape Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Nuurdkap (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Nuurdkap”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Noord-Kaap”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nord Cape”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Northern Cape”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Northern Cape”
- Norwegian: “Noord-Kaap”
- Novial: “Nord Kabe”
- Novial: “Nord Kap”
- Nyanja: “Northern Cape”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Cap Septentrional”
- Ossetian: “Цæгат Кейп”
- Pedi: “Kapa Leboa”
- Persian: “کیپ شمالی”
- Polish: “Noord-Kaap”
- Polish: “Northern Cape”
- Polish: “Prowincja Przylądkowa Północna”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Setentrional”
- Portuguese: “Província do Cabo Setentrional”
- Romanian: “Provincia Northern Cape”
- Russian: “Северная Капская провинция”
- Russian: “Северный Кап”
- Russian: “Северо-Капская провинция”
- Scots: “Northren Cape”
- Serbian: “Severni Kejp”
- Serbian: “Нордерн Кејп”
- Serbian: “Северни Кејп”
- Serbo-Croatian: “North Cape”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sjeverni Kaap”
- Sinhala: “උතුරු කේප් පළාත, දකුණු අප්රිකාව”
- Sinhala: “උතුරු කේප්”
- Slovak: “Severné Kapsko”
- Slovenian: “Northern Cape”
- Slovenian: “Severna Kaplandija”
- Slovenian: “ZA-NC”
- Somali: “Northern Cape Province”
- Southern Sotho: “Kapa Leboya”
- Spanish: “Cabo del Norte”
- Spanish: “El Cabo Septentrional”
- Spanish: “Provincia del Cabo del Norte”
- Spanish: “Provincia del Cabo Septentrional”
- Spanish: “Provincia Septentrional del Cabo”
- Swahili: “Rasi Kaskazini”
- Swahili: “Rasi ya Kaskazini”
- Swati: “Northern Cape”
- Swedish: “Norra Kap”
- Swedish: “Norra Kapprovinsen”
- Swedish: “Northern Cape”
- Tamil: “வடக்கு கேப்”
- Tamil: “வடக்கு தேர்ந்த கபே”
- Tatar: “Төньяк Кап провинциясе”
- Telugu: “ఉత్తర కేప్”
- Thai: “นอร์ทเทิร์น แคป”
- Tswana: “Kapa Bokone”
- Tswana: “Mntla-Kapa”
- Tswana: “Noord-Kaap”
- Tswana: “Northern Cape”
- Turkish: “Kuzey Burun”
- Turkish: “Kuzey Kap”
- Ukrainian: “Північна Капська провінція”
- Ukrainian: “Північно-Капська провінція”
- Ukrainian: “Північнокапська провінція”
- Urdu: “شمالی کیپ”
- Venda: “Kapa Devhula”
- Venetian: “Cao Setentrional”
- Vietnamese: “Bắc Cape”
- Volapük: “Nolüdakepiän”
- Waray (Philippines): “Amihanan Cape”
- Western Panjabi: “اتلا کیپ”
- Wu Chinese: “北开普省”
- Xhosa: “IPhondo yaseMntla-Koloni”
- Yoruba: “Northern Cape”
- Yue Chinese: “北開普”
- Zulu: “INyakatho Kapa”
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