Cape Town Map

Cape Town with Pretoria (executive capital) and Bloemfontein (judicial capital) one of the three capitals (as legislative capital) of the Republic of South Africa and the seat of parliament. It is also the administrative and parliamentary capital of the Western Cape and the second largest city in South Africa to Johannesburg. The Cape Town International Airport is the second largest in the country after Johannesburg O. R. Tambo International Airport.

Cape Town Map

Cape Town lies at the southern tip of Africa and is also known as the Mother City of South Africa. The city was originally constructed as a refreshment station for Dutch ships on their way to East Africa, India and the Far East. It was also one of the first permanent European settlement south of the Sahara. Here is where the leader of the Goringkhoina in 1652 with the Dutch of the Dutch East India Company (in former Dutch: Dutch East India Company, VOC) made contact.

From a small harbor Cape Town quickly evolved into the largest city in South Africa, which was only surpassed by the newly formed Johannesburg in 1887 on the Witwatersrand with the Gold Rush. Yet houses Cape Town, according to the census of 2011 with a population of 1.3 million the largest Afrikaans-speaking community of any city in South Africa. It is also the only major city in the country in which Brown South Africans a relative majority of the population form.

Cape Town thanks to its natural beauty and its location at the foot of the world famous Table Mountain today one of the most prestigious international tourist destination and a favorite city of the international film and advertising industry.

Cape Town in the south-west of the Republic of South Africa and the Western Cape Province of Table Bay from the Atlantic Ocean located. The city is internationally known for its location at the foot of Table Mountain, a large plateau-like mountain massif with a height of 1,086 meters above sea level, which, together with smaller peaks and hills as Signal Hill, Lion's Head and Devil's Peak dominates the skyline and an undeniable became beacon. Table Bay by the indigenous inhabitants houri (literally "Bay of the Sea") and the owes its current name to a Portuguese admiral who sailed alongside in 1503.  The Cape Peninsula, which comes on a length of about 35 kilometers from Cape Town in the north to the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Point stretching is one of the world's plant kingdoms and a myriad types only for this.

Cape Town's "City Bowl" (English: City Bowl) or CBD with its skyscrapers and the neighborhoods that surround, by Table Bay on one side and Table Mountain on the other bounded. The sprawling suburbs on both sides of the mountain massif, in southern direction in a number of mountain chains proceed via the "Twelve Apostles" extends to Cape Point, differ in their nature clear of each other. The whole city area can only be seen from Table Mountain - one million of Cape Town's residents live in the "City Bowl" and other neighborhoods near the Atlantic Ocean or the mountains, while two million city dwellers gathered in the vast Cape Flats.

Because of the often turbulent waters around the Cape Peninsula is the Cape of Good Hope, which is located about 50 kilometers south of the city center, by mariners early called the "Cape of Storms". The icy Benguela current flows from the south along the coast and create a Mediterranean winter rainfall climate where fruits and vines thrive. Marketers describe Cape Town often as "the only city in the world that is situated on two oceans", although the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean, strictly speaking, only meet at Cape Agulhas, about 200 kilometers east of Cape Town. This cape is the southernmost tip of Africa.