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Cape Province
Sign in to saveAlso known as Province of the Cape of Good Hope, Cape of Good Hope Province
former province of South Africa
Key facts
- 1991
- 6,125,335
- Capital
- Cape Town
- Legislature
- Cape Provincial Council
- Established
- 31 May 1910
- Disestablished
- 27 April 1994
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- South Africa
- Capital
- Cape Town
- Official language
- Afrikaans
- Currency
- rand
- Population
- 6125335
- Area
- 717414
- Coat of arms
- coat of arms of the Cape Colony
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- replaced by
- North West
- inception
- 1910-05-31
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1994-04-27
- replaces
- Cape Colony
- native label
- Provinsie van die Kaap die Goeie Hoop
- language used
- Afrikaans
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Province of the Cape of Good Hope (Afrikaans: Provinsie Kaap die Goeie Hoop), commonly referred to as "the Cape Province" (Afrikaans: Kaapprovinsie) and colloquially as "The Cape" (Afrikaans: Die Kaap), was a province in the Union of South Africa and subsequently the Republic of South Africa. It encompassed the old Cape Colony, as well as Walvis Bay, and had Cape Town as its capital. In 1994, the Cape Province was divided into the new Eastern Cape, Northern Cape and Western Cape provinces, along with part of the North West.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cape Province” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.