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- The Eastern Cape, at 168 966 km2, is South Africa’s second largest province after the Northern Cape.
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The Eastern Cape (Xhosa: iMpuma-Kapa; Afrikaans: Oos-Kaap [ˈuəs.kɑːp]) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa. Its capital is Bhisho, and its largest city is Gqeberha (Port Elizabeth). Due to its climate and nineteenth century towns, it is a common location for tourists.
Sep 15, 2024 · It includes the southern spur of the Drakensberg, rising to more than 9,000 feet (2,700 m) in the northeast, and descends southward from the great interior plateau (Highveld) of southern Africa to form a relatively narrow coastal plain along the Indian Ocean.
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The Eastern Cape is the second largest of South Africa's provinces (measured by surface area). Blessed with natural beauty, the province is a region of mountain ranges, undulating hills, sandy beaches, and green green forests.
Provincial profile: Eastern Cape / Statistics South Africa, Pretoria: Statistics South Africa Report number: 03-01-71 100pp ISBN: 978-0-621-52137-5 A complete set of Stats SA publications is available at Stats SA Library and the following libraries: National Library of South Africa, Pretoria Division
The Eastern Cape, at 168 966 km2 , is South Africa’s second largest province after the Northern Cape. The Eastern Cape takes up 13,9% of the total land area of South Africa. The province has a population of more than 6,5 million people. The majority of whom speak isiXhosa, followed by Afrikaans and English.
Oct 18, 2017 · The Eastern Cape is a South African province which was formed in 1994 out of the Xhosa homelands together with the eastern portion of the Cape Province. It’s located in the south-east of the country and gets progressively wetter from east to west.
Gqeberha is South Africa's fifth largest city. It is on the Indian Ocean coast half-way between Cape Town and Durban, in the Eastern Cape, about 260 km from Knysna.
