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Cape Town

–noun
a seaport in and the legislative capital of the Republic of South Africa, in the SW part: also capital of Cape of Good Hope province. 1,108,000.
Also, Capetown.
Afrikaans, Kaapstad.


Cape⋅to⋅ni⋅an [keyp-toh-nee-uhn] , noun
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Cape Town or Cape·town   (kāp'toun')   
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.
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Cape Town

Also Capetown; legislative capital of South Africa. (See also Pretoria.)

The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition
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