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Cape Town

Cape Town is the second most populous city in . The capital of , 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.
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  • Type: City with 3,740,000 residents
  • Description: city in the Western Cape, South Africa
  • Also known as: “Altepetl In Cabo”, “Cape”, “Cape Town, South Africa”, “iKapa”, “Kaap”, “Kaapstad”, “Mother City”, “Tavern of the Seas”, and “West side”
  • Postal codes: 7945 and 8001
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Cape Town Stadium and Bo-Kaap.

Stadium
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The is an association football and rugby union in Cape Town, , that was built as part of the country's hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Manor estate
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The is an area of Cape Town, formerly known as the Malay Quarter. It is a former racially segregated area, situated on the slopes of above the city centre and is a historical centre of Cape Malay culture in Cape Town.

Museum
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The , formerly the South African Museum, is a South African national located in Cape Town. The museum was founded in 1825, the first in the country.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include V&A Waterfront and Schotsche Kloof.

Suburb
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The V&A Waterfront, often referred to as The Waterfront and The V&A, is a mixed-use suburb in Cape Town, , featuring upmarket residential apartments, a major , a marina, and multiple large hotels.

Suburb
The Bo-Kaap is an area of Cape Town, formerly known as the Malay Quarter. It is a former racially segregated area, situated on the slopes of above the city centre and is a historical centre of Cape Malay culture in Cape Town.

Suburb
The is an area in Cape Town, , situated in the city's central business district, between the historic city centre and the Port of Cape Town.

Cape Town

Latitude
-33.9198° or 33° 55′ 11″ south
Longitude
18.4256° or 18° 25′ 32″ east
Population
3,740,000
Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)
IATA airport code
CPT
United Nations Location Code
ZA CPT
Open location code
4FRW3CJG+36
Open­Street­Map ID
node 32675806
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
3369157
Wiki­data ID
Q5465
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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Cape Town” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Кеиптаун”
  • Afrikaans: “Kaap”
  • Afrikaans: “Kaapstad”
  • Albanian: “Kapshtad”
  • Albanian: “Kejp Taun”
  • Albanian: “Kepi”
  • Amharic: “ኬፕ ታውን”
  • Amis: “Cape Town”
  • Arabic: “كيب تاون”
  • Arabic: “كيب تون”
  • Aragonese: “Ciudat d’o Cabo”
  • Aragonese: “Ciudat do Cabo”
  • Armenian: “Քեյփթաուն”
  • Arpitan: “Lo Cap”
  • Arpitan: “Lo Chavon”
  • Assamese: “কেপ টাউন”
  • Asturian: “Ciudá del Cabu”
  • Azerbaijani: “Keyptaun”
  • Balinese: “Cape Town”
  • Bashkir: “Кейптаун”
  • Basque: “Lurmutur Hiria”
  • Belarusian: “Кейптаўн”
  • Bengali: “কেপ টাউন”
  • Bosnian: “Cape Town”
  • Breton: “Ar C’hab”
  • Breton: “Ar Chab”
  • Bulgarian: “Кейптаун”
  • Burmese: “ကိပ်တောင်းမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Ciutat del Cap”
  • Cebuano: “Cape Town”
  • Central Bikol: “Cape Town”
  • Central Kanuri: “Cape Town”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەیپ تاون”
  • Chechen: “Кейптаун”
  • Chinese: “Cape Town”
  • Chinese: “好望角鎮”
  • Chinese: “开普敦”
  • Chinese: “開普敦/开普敦”
  • Chinese: “開普敦”
  • Cornish: “Cape Town”
  • Corsican: “Cità di u Capu”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Keyptaun”
  • Croatian: “Cape Town”
  • Croatian: “Kaapstad”
  • Czech: “Cape Town”
  • Czech: “Kapské město”
  • Czech: “Kapské Město”
  • Dagbani: “Cape Town”
  • Danish: “Cape Town”
  • Danish: “Kapstaden”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Cape Town”
  • Dotyali: “केपटाउन”
  • Dutch: “Kaapstad”
  • Eastern Mari: “Кейптаун”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيب تاون”
  • Erzya: “Кейптаун ош”
  • Esperanto: “Kaburbo”
  • Estonian: “Kaplinn”
  • Extremaduran: “Ciá del Cabu”
  • Faroese: “Cape Town”
  • Faroese: “Høvdastaður”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Cape Town”
  • Finnish: “Kapkaupunki”
  • French: “Cité du Cap”
  • French: “Le Cap”
  • Fulah: “Cape Town”
  • Galician: “Cidade do Cabo”
  • Georgian: “კეიპტაუნი”
  • Georgian: “ქეიფთაუნი”
  • German: “Cape Town”
  • German: “Cape”
  • German: “Capstadt”
  • German: “Kaap”
  • German: “Kaapstad”
  • German: “Kap”
  • German: “Kapstadt”
  • Greek: “Cape Town”
  • Greek: “Κέιπ Τάουν”
  • Greek: “Πόλη του Ακρωτηρίου”
  • Guarani: “Yvy akua Táva”
  • Gujarati: “કેપ ટાઉન”
  • Gujarati: “કેપટાઉન”
  • Haitian: “Li Kap”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Cape Town”
  • Hausa: “Cape Town”
  • Hebrew: “קייפ טאון”
  • Hebrew: “קייפטאון”
  • Hindi: “केप टाउन”
  • Hindi: “केपटाउन”
  • Hungarian: “Fokváros”
  • Hungarian: “Kaapstad”
  • Icelandic: “Höfðaborg”
  • Ido: “Kab-urbo”
  • Igbo: “Cape Town”
  • Iloko: “Cape Town”
  • Inari Sami: “Kapkaavpug”
  • Indonesian: “Cape Town”
  • Indonesian: “Kaapstad”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Tanjung”
  • Ingush: “Кейптаун”
  • Interlingua: “Citate del Capo”
  • Irish: “Cape Town”
  • Italian: “Città del Capo”
  • Japanese: “ケープ タウン”
  • Japanese: “ケープタウン”
  • Japanese: “ケイプタウン”
  • Javanese: “Cape Town”
  • Kabiyè: “Kaapɩ”
  • Kabyle: “Cape Town”
  • Kannada: “ಕೇಪ್ ಟೌನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಕೇಪ್ಟೌನ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Keyptaun”
  • Kashmiri: “کیپ ٹاؤن”
  • Kazakh: “Капстад”
  • Kazakh: “Кейптаун”
  • Kirghiz: “Кейптаун”
  • Korean: “카프스타트”
  • Korean: “케이프타운”
  • Kotava: “Kaapstad”
  • Ladin: “Zità dl Cap”
  • Ladino: “Sivdad del Kabo”
  • Latin: “Civitas Capitis”
  • Latvian: “Keiptauna”
  • Ligurian: “Çittæ do Capo”
  • Ligurian: “Çittæ do Cavo”
  • Lithuanian: “Keiptaunas”
  • Lombard: “Cità del Cap”
  • Low German: “Kapstadt”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kapstad”
  • Macedonian: “Кејптаун”
  • Malagasy: “Cape Town”
  • Malay: “Cape Town”
  • Malayalam: “കേപ് ടൗൺ”
  • Maltese: “Cape Town”
  • Maori: “Kēpa Tāone”
  • Maori: “Kepatāone”
  • Marathi: “कापश्टाड”
  • Marathi: “केप टाउन”
  • Marathi: “केपटाउन”
  • Mazanderani: “کیپ تاؤن”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Cape Town”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Cape Town”
  • Minangkabau: “Cape Town”
  • Mingrelian: “კეიპტაუნი”
  • Moksha: “Кэйптаун”
  • Mongolian: “Кейптаун”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كيپ تاون”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كيپ طاون”
  • Narom: “Lé Cap”
  • Navajo: “Taahííʼą́ągi Kin Haalʼá”
  • Nepali: “केप टाउन”
  • Newari: “केप टाउन”
  • Newari: “केपताउन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kapstadt”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kapsteed”
  • Northern Sami: “Cape Town”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Cape Town”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kappstaden”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cape Town”
  • Norwegian: “Cape Town”
  • Novial: “Kabe Urbe”
  • Nyanja: “Cape Town”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ciutat del Cap”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lo Cap”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Næssburg”
  • Oriya: “କେପ ଟାଉନ”
  • Ossetian: “Кейптаун”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਪ ਟਾਨ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੇਪਟਾਊਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Kaapstad”
  • Pedi: “Cape Town”
  • Persian: “کیپ‌تاون”
  • Piemontese: “Sità dël Cap”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Cape Taun”
  • Polish: “Kapsztad”
  • Portuguese: “Cape Town”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade do Cabo, África do Sul”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade do Cabo”
  • Pushto: “کيپ ټاؤن”
  • Pushto: “کیپ ټاون”
  • Pushto: “کېپ ټاون”
  • Romanian: “Cape Town”
  • Russia Buriat: “Кейптаун”
  • Russian: “Кейптаун”
  • Rusyn: “Капске Місто”
  • Sakizaya: “Kay-pu-tun”
  • Samogitian: “Keiptauns”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱮᱯ ᱴᱟᱣᱩᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Tzitade de su Cabu”
  • Scots: “Cape Toun”
  • Scots: “Cape”
  • Scots: “Kaapstad”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Baile a‘ Chip”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Baile a’ Chip”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Cape Town”
  • Serbian: “Кејптаун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Cape Town”
  • Shona: “Cape Town”
  • Sicilian: “Citati dû Capu”
  • Silesian: “Kapsztad”
  • Sindhi: “ڪيپ ٽائون”
  • Sinhala: “කේප් ටවුන්”
  • Slovak: “Kapské Mesto”
  • Slovenian: “Cape Town”
  • Slovenian: “Kaapstad”
  • Somali: “Kab town”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کئیپ‌تاون”
  • Southern Sotho: “Motse Kapa”
  • Spanish: “Cabo”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad del Cabo (Sudáfrica)”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad del cabo”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad del Cabo”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Madre”
  • Spanish: “El Cabo”
  • Spanish: “Taberna de los Mares”
  • Swahili: “Cape Town”
  • Swati: “Cape Town”
  • Swedish: “Cape Town”
  • Swedish: “Cape”
  • Swedish: “Kaap”
  • Swedish: “Kaapstad”
  • Swedish: “Kap”
  • Swedish: “Kapstaden”
  • Swiss German: “Kapstadt”
  • Tagalog: “Cape Town”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Cabo”
  • Tajik: “Кейп Таун”
  • Tajik: “Кейптаун”
  • Tamil: “கேப் டவுன்”
  • Tamil: “கேப் நகரம்”
  • Tatar: “Keyptawn”
  • Tatar: “Кейптаун”
  • Telugu: “కేప్ టౌన్”
  • Telugu: “కేప్ పట్టణం”
  • Thai: “เคปทาวน์”
  • Tok Pisin: “Cape Town”
  • Tok Pisin: “Kep Taun”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kapstadt”
  • Tsonga: “Doroba ra Kapa”
  • Tswana: “Cape Town”
  • Turkish: “Cape Town”
  • Turkish: “Kap Şehri”
  • Turkmen: “Keýptaun”
  • Tyap: “Cape Town”
  • Uighur: “Kapétown”
  • Ukrainian: “Капстад”
  • Ukrainian: “Кейптаун”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kapstadt”
  • Urdu: “کیپ ٹاؤن”
  • Uzbek: “Keyptaun”
  • Venda: “Cape Town”
  • Venda: “Cape”
  • Venetian: “Sità del Cao”
  • Veps: “Keiptaun”
  • Vietnamese: “Cape Town”
  • Volapük: “Cape Town”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Cape Town”
  • Welsh: “Tref y Penrhyn”
  • Western Armenian: “Քեյփթաուն”
  • Western Frisian: “Kaapstêd”
  • Western Panjabi: “کیپ ٹاؤن”
  • Wu Chinese: “开普敦”
  • Xhosa: “IKapa”
  • Yakut: “Кейптаун”
  • Yiddish: “קאפשטאט”
  • Yoruba: “Cape Town”
  • Yue Chinese: “好望角鎮”
  • Yue Chinese: “急當”
  • Zeeuws: “Kaepstad”
  • Zulu: “iKapa”
  • Zulu: “IKapa”
  • “Āltepētl In Cabo”
  • “Cape Town”
  • “Cetate d’u Cápe”
  • “Keiptauns”
  • “ma Cape Town”
  • “ma Ke Tan”
  • “ma Ketan”
  • “ma tomo Cape Town”
  • “ma tomo Kape”
  • “ma tomo Ke Tan”
  • “ma tomo Ketan”

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