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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 |
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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. |
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| Cape Town (preferred,C,V,English-P)
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| Capetown (C,V)
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| Kaapstad (C,V)
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| Ciudad del Cabo (C,O)
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| Kapstadt (C,O)
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| Kapstad (C,O)
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| Le Cap (C,O)
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| קייפטאון (C,U,Hebrew )
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Place Types: |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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founded 1652 |
| city (C) |
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| legislative center (C) |
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| port (C) |
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| resort (C) |
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| provincial capital (H) |
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of former Cape Province until November, 1993 |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital of .... |
South Africa .......... (nation) |
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(World, Africa) [1000193] |
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legislative capital |
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