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- Largest province of the Republic of South
- Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope
- area 641,379 sq km/247,638 sq mi, excluding
- Walvis Bay capital Cape Town towns Port
- Elizabeth, East London, Kimberley,
- Grahamstown, Stellenbosch physical Orange
- River, Drakensberg, Table mountain (highest
- point Maclear's Beacon, 1087 m/3567 ft);
- Great Karoo Plateau, Walvis Bay products
- fruit, vegetables, wine; meat, ostrich
- feathers; diamonds, copper, asbestos,
- manganese population (1985) 5,041,000;
- officially including 44% Coloured; 31% Black;
- 25% White; 0.6% Asian history the Dutch
- occupied the Cape in 1652, but it was taken
- by the British in 1795 after the French
- Revolutionary armies had occupied the
- Netherlands and was sold to Britain for 6
- million in 1814. The Cape achieved
- self-government in 1872. It was an original
- province of the Union in 1910. The Orange
- River was proclaimed the northern boundary in
- 1825. Griqualand West (1880) and the southern
- part of Bechuanaland (1895) were later
- incorporated; Walvis Bay, although formerly
- administered with Namibia, is legally an
- integral part of Cape Province.
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