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Northern Cape

Northern Cape proper noun: a province of South Africa. Capital and largest city: Kimberley. It was created in 1994 when Cape Province was split into three.

Proper noun

Northern Cape

  1. A province of South Africa. Capital and largest city: Kimberley. It was created in 1994 when Cape Province was split into three.
    • But there is much more to this small Northern Cape town than the bucolic ideal painted by Kleynhans. Incredibly, 25 years after the fall of apartheid, Orania is a place for white people only.2019 October 24, Dennis Webster, “'An indictment of South Africa': whites-only town Orania is booming”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 29 Mar 2022

Questions about Northern Cape

What does Northern Cape mean?
Northern Cape means a province of South Africa. Capital and largest city: Kimberley. It was created in 1994 when Cape Province was split into three.
What part of speech is Northern Cape?
Northern Cape is a proper noun.

Words near Northern Cape in the dictionary

  1. northern brushtail possum
  2. northern brushtail possums
  3. northern buffed-cheeked gibbon
  4. Northern California
  5. Northern Canada
  6. Northern Cape
  7. northern cardinal
  8. northern cardinals
  9. Northern Carrier
  10. northern cavefish
  11. northern common cuscus

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