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Cape Town

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Cape Town or Cape·town  (kptoun)
The legislative capital of South Africa, in the extreme southwest part of the country on the Atlantic Ocean. It was founded in 1652 as a supply station for the Dutch East Indies Company. Population: 2,890,000.
Cape Town
n
(Placename) the legislative capital of South Africa and capital of Western Cape province, situated in the southwest on Table Bay: founded in 1652, the first White settlement in southern Africa; important port. Pop. (urban area): 2 415 408 (1996)
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Noun1.Cape Town - port city in southwestern South Africa; the seat of the legislative branch of the government of South Africa
Republic of South Africa, South Africa - a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)
Translations
Cape Town [ˈkeɪp ˈtaʊn] n → Le Cap
Cape Town n → Città del Capo
Cape Town n → Città del Capo


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One was an order from his superior to lay off on his present work, and hasten to Cape Town by the first steamer he could get.
The Return of Tarzan by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
After spending a week in Cape Town, finding that they overcharged me at the hotel, and having seen everything there was to see, including the botanical gardens, which seem to me likely to confer a great benefit on the country, and the new Houses of Parliament, which I expect will do nothing of the sort, I determined to go back to Natal by the /Dunkeld/, then lying at the docks waiting for the /Edinburgh Castle/ due in from England.
King Solomon's Mines by Haggard, Rider H. View in context
"I came from the end of the earth," he said, which rather seemed to confirm the Cape Town story, "bringing me Motherland the secret that would give her the empire of the world.
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