Cape Town

Cape Town (Afrikaans: Kaapstad; Xhosa: eKapa or SaseKapa) is the third most populous city in South Africa. It is the legislative capital of South Africa, as well as capital of the Western Cape province. Cape Town is famous for its natural harbour, as well as its location near the Cape of Good Hope. Its central area is dominated by Table Mountain, so named after its flat top. Cape Town is located at .

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Cape Town is the tourism capital of South Africa, receiving the largest number of tourists of any South African city.

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The area is also famous for its unique plant life: fynbos (an Afrikaans word meaning "fine bush"), a shrubby vegetation type similar to other winter rainfall shrublands, in which proteas are prominent and characteristic and which occurs nowhere else but the Cape coastal belt, the adjacent mountains and some isolated inland mountain tops. Fire is a necessary stage in the lives of almost all fynbos plants. In readiness for fire, most proteas retain their seeds on the bush for at least one year, a habit known as serotiny. They do this in structures which resemble the original flowerheads. In some species these structures are strikingly beautiful and long-lasting, which accounts for their use in dried floral arrangements.

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Lastly, it is famous for the fine wines produced in the area.

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When leaving Cape Town, you first pass the suburbs and Cape Town International Airport. After getting over the mountains you enter the Karoo in the north-east or the coast regions in the north and east.

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Xhosa: The Xhosa people are a group of peoples of Bantu origins living in south-east South Africa....

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