Western Cape
The Western Cape is the most south-western province in South Africa, covering many of South Africa's tourist destinations and attractions.Photo: Dewet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Cape Town and Robben Island.
Cape Town
Cape Town is the second most populous city in South Africa. The capital of Western Cape Province, it is also the legislative capital of the nation. Cape Town is on South Africa's southwestern coast close to the Cape of Good Hope, and is the southernmost city on the African continent.
Robben Island
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Robben Island is in the Western Cape of South Africa, approximately 7 km off the coast and 12 km from Cape Town harbour. This island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Stellenbosch
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Stellenbosch is a city in the Western Cape, and is the heart of the Cape Winelands, South Africa's prime wine region. Its historical parts display colonial Dutch architecture.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Cape Peninsula and Garden Route.
Cape Peninsula
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The Cape Peninsula is in Western Cape of South Africa, encompassing the Cape Town metro area, Cape Point and the False Bay area.
Garden Route
The Garden Route in the Western Cape is one of South Africa's main tourist attractions and is generally considered to stretch from Mossel Bay to Storms River along the Indian ocean.
Cape Winelands
The Cape Winelands are a region in the south of South Africa. The winelands boasts some of the most majestic scenery in South Africa. It is situated to the north-east of Cape Town and offers a beautiful landscape of wine hills and mountains.
West Coast
The West Coast Region, located along the South-West Coast of South Africa, skirts the Atlantic ocean from Bloubergstrand in the Cape Metropolitan Area in the south, to the provincial border in Namaqualand in the north, all within the Western Cape.
Overberg
The Overberg District Municipality is a district municipality that governs the Overberg region in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It is divided into four local municipalities and includes the major towns of Grabouw, Caledon, Hermanus, Bredasdorp and Swellendam.
Western Cape Karoo
The Western Cape Karoo is in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It includes the Little Karoo, a semi-desert region between the Swartberge and the Garden Route, which is known for its ostrich farms.
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Western Cape
- Type: State with 7,430,000 residents
- Description: province of South Africa
- Also known as: “province of the Western Cape”, “province of Western Cape”, and “Western Cape Province”
- Historically known as: “Western Cape”
- Neighbors: Eastern Cape and Northern Cape
- Categories: province of South Africa and locality
- Location: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude of center
-33.547° or 33° 32′ 49″ southLongitude of center
20.7275° or 20° 43′ 39″ eastPopulation
7,430,000Elevation
218 metres (715 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Western Cape” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Provinsie Wes-Kaap”
- Afrikaans: “Wes Kaap”
- Afrikaans: “Wes-Kaap”
- Afrikaans: “Wes-Kaapprovinsie”
- Afrikaans: “Weskaap”
- Arabic: “كيب الغربية”
- Arabic: “كيب الغربيه”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան Կապ”
- Asturian: “Provincia Cabo Occidental”
- Asturian: “Provincia Cabu Occidental”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Kaap vilayəti”
- Azerbaijani: “Qərbi Keyp vilayəti”
- Basque: “Lurmutur Mendebaldea”
- Belarusian: “Заходне-Капская правінцыя”
- Belarusian: “Заходне-Кэйпская правінцыя”
- Belarusian: “Заходні Кэйп”
- Belarusian: “Заходняя Капская правінцыя”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম কেপ”
- Breton: “Kab ar C’hornaoueg”
- Bulgarian: “Западен Кейп”
- Bulgarian: “Уестърн Кейп”
- Bulgarian: “Уестърнкейп”
- Catalan: “Cap Occidental”
- Catalan: “Província del Cap Occidental”
- Catalan: “Província del Cap Oest”
- Catalan: “Província Occidental del Cap”
- Cebuano: “Province of the Western Cape”
- Cebuano: “Western Cape”
- Chinese: “Sai Cape Séng”
- Chinese: “西开普”
- Chinese: “西开普省”
- Chinese: “西開普”
- Chinese: “西開普省”
- Croatian: “Western Cape”
- Czech: “Západní Kapsko”
- Danish: “Vest-Kap”
- Danish: “Vest-Kapprovinsen”
- Danish: “Western Cape”
- Dutch: “Wes-Kaap”
- Dutch: “Weskaap”
- Dutch: “West-Kaap”
- Dutch: “Westelijke Kaap”
- Esperanto: “Okcidenta Kablando”
- Estonian: “Lääne-Kapimaa provints”
- Estonian: “Lääne-Kapimaa”
- Faroese: “Western Cape”
- Finnish: “Länsi-Kap”
- Finnish: “Western Cape”
- French: “Cap occidental”
- French: “Cap-Occidental”
- French: “Western Cape”
- Galician: “Cabo Occidental”
- Georgian: “დასავლეთი კაპლანდი”
- German: “Ntshona-Koloni”
- German: “Provinz Westkap”
- German: “Wes-Kaap”
- German: “West-Kap”
- German: “Western Cape”
- German: “Westkap”
- German: “ZA-WC”
- Greek: “Δυτικότερο Ακρωτήριο”
- Gujarati: “વેસ્ટર્ન કેપ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sî Cape-sén”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sî Khôi-phú-sén”
- Hebrew: “הכף המערבי”
- Hebrew: “פרובינציית הכף המערבית”
- Hindi: “पश्चिमी केप प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Nyugat-Fokföld”
- Indonesian: “Tanjung Barat”
- Indonesian: “Western Cape”
- Italian: “Capo Occidentale”
- Italian: “provincia del Capo Occidentale”
- Italian: “Provincia del Capo Occidentale”
- Italian: “Western Cape Province”
- Italian: “Western Cape”
- Japanese: “西ケープ州”
- Kabyle: “Kip tutrimt”
- Kannada: “ವೆಸ್ಟರ್ನ್ ಕೇಪ್”
- Korean: “웨스턴 케이프 주”
- Korean: “웨스턴케이프주”
- Latin: “Caput occidentale”
- Latin: “Promontorium Occidentale”
- Latvian: “Rietumkāpa”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Kapas”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Kyšulio provincija”
- Lithuanian: “Vakarų Kyšulys”
- Luxembourgish: “Westkap”
- Macedonian: “Западен Кејп”
- Malagasy: “Western Cape”
- Malay: “Cape Barat”
- Malayalam: “പടിഞ്ഞാറൻ കേപ്”
- Marathi: “वेस्टर्न केप”
- Mazanderani: “غربی کیپ اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sai Cape Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Waastkap (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Waastkap”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wes-Kaap”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Western Cape Province”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Western Cape”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Western Cape”
- Norwegian: “Wes-Kaap”
- Novial: “West Kabe”
- Novial: “West Kap”
- Nyanja: “Western Cape”
- Ossetian: “Ныгуылæн Капы провинци”
- Ossetian: “Ныгуылæн Кейп”
- Pedi: “Kapa Bodikela”
- Persian: “كيپ غربي”
- Persian: “کیپ غربی”
- Polish: “Prowincja Przylądkowa Zachodnia”
- Polish: “Western Cape”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Ocidental”
- Portuguese: “Cabo Oeste”
- Portuguese: “Província do Cabo Ocidental”
- Romanian: “Provincia Western Cape”
- Romanian: “Wes-Kaap”
- Russian: “Западная Капская провинция”
- Russian: “Западно-Капская провинция”
- Russian: “Западный Кап”
- Russian: “Западный Кейп”
- Scots: “Wastren Cape”
- Scots: “Western Cape”
- Serbian: “Zapadni Kejp”
- Serbian: “Вестерн Кејп”
- Serbian: “Западни Кејп”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Western Cape”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zapadni Kaap”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර කේප් පළාත, දකුණු අප්රිකාව”
- Sinhala: “බටහිර කේප්”
- Slovak: “Západné Kapsko”
- Slovenian: “Western Cape”
- Slovenian: “Zahodna Kaplandija”
- Somali: “Western Cape Province”
- Southern Sotho: “Kapa Bophirimela”
- Spanish: “El Cabo Occidental”
- Spanish: “Provincia del Cabo Occidental”
- Spanish: “Provincia del Occidental del Cabo”
- Spanish: “Provincia Occidental del Cabo”
- Swahili: “Rasi Magharibi”
- Swahili: “Rasi ya Magharibi”
- Swati: “Western Cape”
- Swedish: “Västra Kap-provinsen”
- Swedish: “Västra Kap”
- Swedish: “Västra Kapprovinsen”
- Swedish: “Western Cape”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு கபே”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு கேப்”
- Tatar: “Көнбатыш-Кап провинциясе”
- Telugu: “వెస్టర్న్ కేప్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดเวสเทิร์นเคป”
- Thai: “เวสเทิร์น เคป”
- Tswana: “Kapa Bophirima”
- Tswana: “Western Cape”
- Turkish: “Batı Kap”
- Ukrainian: “Західна Капська провінція”
- Ukrainian: “Західний Кейп”
- Ukrainian: “Західно-Капська провінція”
- Ukrainian: “Західнокапська провінція”
- Urdu: “مغربی کیپ”
- Urdu: “ویسٹرن کیپ”
- Venda: “Kapa Vhukovhela”
- Vietnamese: “Tây Cape”
- Vietnamese: “Western Cape”
- Volapük: “Vesüdakepiän”
- Waray (Philippines): “Katundan Cape”
- Western Frisian: “West-Kaap”
- Western Panjabi: “چڑھدا کیپ”
- Western Panjabi: “مغربی کیپ”
- Wu Chinese: “西开普省”
- Xhosa: “IPhondo yaNtshona-Koloni”
- Xhosa: “Ntshona Koloni”
- Xhosa: “Ntshona-Koloni”
- Yoruba: “Western Cape”
- Yue Chinese: “西開普”
- Zulu: “INtshonalanga Kapa”
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