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 Capital  Geography  History  People  Wildlife  Culture  Climate  Flag

 Cape town is a city in South Africa.  Table Mountain National Park defines the city.

 South Africa occupies the southern tip of Africa, its long coastline stretching more than 2 500km from the desert border with Namibia on the Atlantic coast, southwards around the tip of Africa, then north to the border with subtropical Mozambique on the Indian Ocean.

 Tens of thousands of Dutch and British settlers came here in the 19th century to look for cold and diamonds.  Today we have some of the world`s richest gold mines and diamond fields.

 There are some fiev million white people living in South Africa. But the majority of use are black Africans.  White South Africans differ significantly from other white African groups, because they have developed nationhood, as in the case of the Afrikaners, who established a distinct language, culture and faith in Africa.

 Each year millions of tourists visit South Africa.  Most of them come to see the Big Five-the elephants, lions, rhinos, leopards and buffalo.  We have several wildlife reserves here.  The largest and most famos in the Kruger National Park.

 The culture of South Africa is known for its ethnic and cultural diversity.  The South African majority still has a substantial number of rural inhabitants who lead largely impoverished lives.  It is among these people, however, that cultural traditions survive most strongly; as Africans have become increasingly urbanized and Westernised, aspects of traditional culture have declined.  Urban Africans usually speak English or Afrikaans in addition to their native tongue.

 Our climate is very pleasant: the summers are never too hot and the winters are never too cold.

 The flag has horizontal bands of red (on the top) and blue (on the bottom), of equal width, separated by a central green band which splits into a horizontal "Y" shape, the arms of which end at the corners of the hoist side (and follow the flag's diagonals). The Y embraces a black isosceles triangle from which the arms are separated by narrow yellow bands; the red and blue bands are separated from the green band and its arms by narrow white stripes.