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.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 3,740,000 residents
- Description: city in the Western Cape, South Africa
- Postal codes: 7945 and 8001
Photo: Andresdewet, Public domain.
Photo: Martinvl, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: MB-one, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Cape Town Stadium
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The Cape Town Stadium is an association football and rugby union stadium in Cape Town, South Africa, that was built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
Bo-Kaap
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The Bo-Kaap is an area of Cape Town, South Africa formerly known as the Malay Quarter.
Iziko South African Museum
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The Iziko South African Museum is a South African national museum located in Cape Town.
Localities in the Area
V&A Waterfront
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The V&A Waterfront is a mixed-use destination located in the oldest working harbour in the Southern Hemisphere.
Woodstock
Woodstock is one of the earliest suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa, between the docks of Table Bay and the lower slopes of Devil's Peak, about 1 kilometre east of the city centre of Cape Town.Schotsche Kloof
The Bo-Kaap is an area of Cape Town, South Africa formerly known as the Malay Quarter.Cape Town
- Categories: port settlement, capital city, statistical territorial entity, big city and locality
- Location: City of Cape Town, Cape Peninsula, Western Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-33.9198° or 33° 55' 11" southLongitude
18.4256° or 18° 25' 32" eastPopulation
3,740,000Elevation
25 metres (82 feet)IATA airport code
CPTUnited Nations Location Code
ZA CPTOpen Location Code
4FRW3CJG+36OpenStreetMap ID
node 32675806OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
3369157Wikidata ID
Q5465Cape Town Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Cape Town
- Abkhazian: Кеиптаун
- Afar: Keyptaun
- Afrikaans: Kaap
- Afrikaans: Kaapstad
- Albanian: Kapshtad
- Albanian: Kejp Taun
- Albanian: Kepi
- Amharic: Cape Town
- Amharic: ኬፕ ታውን
- Amis: Cape Town
- Arabic: Cape Town
- Arabic: كيب تاون
- Arabic: كيب تون
- Aragonese: Ciudat d'o Cabo
- Aragonese: Ciudat do Cabo
- Armenian: Քեյփթաուն
- Arpitan: Lo Cap
- Asturian: Ciudá del Cabu
- Avaric: Kaapstad
- 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 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
- 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
- English: Cape
- English: Cape Town, South Africa
- English: Kaap
- English: Kaapstad
- English: Mother City
- English: Tavern of the Seas
- English: West side
- English: iKapa
- 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
- German: Cape Town
- 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: קייפטאון
- Hebrew: קייפ טאון
- Hindi: केपटाउन
- Hindi: केप टाउन
- 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: ケイプタウン
- Japanese: ケープタウン
- Japanese: ケープ タウン
- Javanese: Cape Town
- Kabiyè: Kaapɩ
- Kabyle: Cape Town
- Kannada: ಕೇಪ್ ಟೌನ್
- Kannada: ಕೇಪ್ಟೌನ್
- Kara-Kalpak: Keyptaun
- Kazakh: Капстад
- Kazakh: Кейптаун
- Kirghiz: Кейптаун
- Korean: 카프스타트
- Korean: 케이프타운
- Kotava: Kaapstad
- Ladin: Zità dl Cap
- Ladino: Sivdad del Kabo
- Lao: Cape Town
- 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
- Marathi: कापश्टाड
- Marathi: केपटाउन
- Marathi: केप टाउन
- Mazanderani: کیپ تاؤن
- Min Dong Chinese: Cape Town
- Min Nan Chinese: Cape Town
- Mingrelian: კეიპტაუნი
- Moksha: Кэйптаун
- Mongolian: Кейптаун
- Moroccan Arabic: كيپ طاون
- Narom: Lé Cap
- Navajo: Taahííʼą́ągi Kin Haalʼá
- Nepali: केप टाउन
- Nepali: केपताउन
- Newari: केप टाउन
- Newari: केपताउन
- Northern Frisian: Kapstadt
- Northern Frisian: Kapsteed
- Northern Sami: Cape Town
- Norwegian: Cape Town
- Norwegian Bokmål: Cape Town
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kappstaden
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Cape Town
- Novial: Kabe Urbe
- Nyanja: Cape Town
- Occitan (post 1500): Lo Cap
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Næssburg
- Oriya: କେପ ଟାଉନ
- Ossetian: Кейптаун
- Panjabi: ਕੇਪਟਾਊਨ
- Panjabi: ਕੇਪ ਟਾਨ
- Papiamento: Kaapstad
- Pedi: Cape Town
- Persian: کیپتاون
- Piemontese: Sità dël Cap
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Cape Taun
- Polish: Kapsztad
- Portuguese: Cape Town
- Portuguese: Cidade do Cabo
- Portuguese: Cidade do Cabo, África do Sul
- Pushto: کيپ ټاؤن
- Pushto: کیپ ټاون
- Pushto: کېپ ټاون
- Romanian: Cape Town
- Russia Buriat: Кейптаун
- Russian: Кейптаун
- Rusyn: Капске Місто
- Samogitian: Keiptauns
- Santali: ᱠᱮᱯ ᱴᱟᱣᱩᱱ
- Sardinian: Tzitade de su Cabu
- Scots: Cape Toun
- Scottish Gaelic: Baile a' Chip
- Scottish Gaelic: Cape Town
- Serbian: Кејптаун
- Serbo-Croatian: Cape Town
- Shona: Cape Town
- Sicilian: Citati dû Capu
- Silesian: Kapsztad
- 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 Madre
- Spanish: Ciudad del Cabo
- Spanish: Ciudad del Cabo (Sudáfrica)
- Spanish: Ciudad del cabo
- Spanish: El Cabo
- Spanish: Taberna de los Mares
- Swahili: Cape Town
- Swati: Cape Town
- Swedish: Cape
- Swedish: Cape Town
- 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: Kep Taun
- Tosk Albanian: Kapstadt
- Tsonga: Doroba ra Kapa
- Tswana: Cape Town
- Turkish: Cape Town
- Turkish: Kap Şehri
- Turkmen: Keýptaun
- Uighur: Kapétown
- Ukrainian: Капстад
- Ukrainian: Кейптаун
- Upper Sorbian: Kapstadt
- Urdu: کیپ ٹاؤن
- Uzbek: Keyptaun
- Venda: Cape Town
- 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
- Altepetl In Cabo
- Cetate d'u Cápe
- Kepatāone
- Āltepētl In Cabo
Other Places Named Cape Town
Localities in the Area
- City CentreSuburb
- E-BerthLocality
- ForeshoreSuburb
- D-BerthLocality
- West QuayLocality
Popular Destinations in Cape Peninsula
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