 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Research Home
Tools Thesaurus of Geographic Names Full Record Display
|
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Vernacular Display | English Display |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Click the icon to view the hierarchy. |
|
 |
Cape Town (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 33 56 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -33.9333 decimal degrees |
Long: 018 28 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 18.4667 decimal degrees |
|
Note: Founded by navigator Jan van Riebeeck for the Dutch East India Company; controlled by the Dutch until it fell to Great Britain in 1795; Treaty of Amiens in 1803 returned it to the Dutch; retaken by British in 1806; national legislative capital. |
Names: |
|
Cape Town (preferred,C,V,English-P)
|
Capetown (C,V)
|
Kaapstad (C,V)
|
Ciudad del Cabo (C,O)
|
Kapstadt (C,O)
|
Kapstad (C,O)
|
Le Cap (C,O)
|
קייפטאון (C,U,Hebrew )
|
|
Hierarchical Position: |
|
|
Place Types: |
|
inhabited place (preferred, C) |
............ |
founded 1652 |
city (C) |
|
legislative center (C) |
|
port (C) |
|
resort (C) |
|
provincial capital (H) |
............ |
of former Cape Province until November, 1993 |
|
Related geographic places: |
|
capital of .... |
South Africa .......... (nation) |
.................. |
(World, Africa) [1000193] |
.................. |
legislative capital |
|
Sources and Contributors: |
|
|
|