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___MASK60___ is a coastal city in South Africa . It is the second - most populous urban area in South Africa after Johannesburg . It is also the capital and primate city ___MASK93___ the ___MASK99___ province . ___MASK16___ Africa , officially the Republic ___MASK93___ ___MASK16___ Africa ( RSA ), is the southernmost country in Africa . It is bounded on the south by ___MASK93___ coastline ___MASK93___ Southern Africa stretching along the ___MASK16___ Atlantic and Indian Oceans , on the north by the neighbouring countries ___MASK93___ Namibia , Botswana and Zimbabwe , and on the east and northeast by Mozambique and Swaziland , and surrounding the kingdom ___MASK93___ Lesotho . ___MASK16___ Africa is the 25th - largest country in the world by land area , and with close to 56 million people , is the world ' s 24th - most populous nation . It is the southernmost country on the mainland ___MASK93___ the Old World or the Eastern Hemisphere . It is the only country that borders both the ___MASK33___ and the Indian Ocean . About 80 percent ___MASK93___ ___MASK16___ Africans are ___MASK93___ Sub - Saharan African ancestry , divided among a variety ___MASK93___ ethnic groups speaking different Bantu languages , nine ___MASK93___ which have official status . The remaining population consists ___MASK93___ Africa ' s largest communities ___MASK93___ European ( white ), Asian ( Indian ), and multiracial ( coloured ) ancestry . Cape Point is a promontory at the southeast corner ___MASK93___ the Cape Peninsula , which is a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north - south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip ___MASK93___ the African continent in the Republic ___MASK93___ South Africa . Table Mountain and the city ___MASK93___ Cape Town are close to the ___MASK88___ extremity ___MASK93___ the same peninsula . The cape is located at , about 2 . 3 kilometres ( 1 . 4 mi ) east and a little north ___MASK93___ the Cape ___MASK93___ Good Hope on the southwest corner . Although these two rocky capes are very well known , neither cape is actually the southernmost point ___MASK93___ the mainland ___MASK93___ Africa ; that is Cape Agulhas , approximately to the east - southeast . The Cape ___MASK93___ Good Hope (, ) is a rocky headland on the Atlantic coast ___MASK93___ the Cape Peninsula , South Africa . The ___MASK99___ is a province ___MASK93___ South Africa , situated in the south - western part ___MASK93___ the country . It is the fourth largest ___MASK93___ the nine provinces in terms ___MASK93___ both area and population , with an area ___MASK93___ and 5 . 8 million inhabitants . About two - thirds ___MASK93___ these inhabitants live in the metropolitan area ___MASK93___ Cape Town , which is also the provincial capital . The ___MASK99___ was created in 1994 from part ___MASK93___ the former Cape Province . ___MASK40___ ( also known as Jozi , Joburg and eGoli ) is the largest city in ___MASK16___ Africa and is one ___MASK93___ the 50 largest urban areas in the world . It is the provincial capital ___MASK93___ Gauteng , which is the wealthiest province in ___MASK16___ Africa . While ___MASK40___ is not one ___MASK93___ ___MASK16___ Africa ' s three capital cities , it is the seat ___MASK93___ the Constitutional Court . The city is located in the mineral - rich Witwatersrand range ___MASK93___ hills and is the centre ___MASK93___ large - scale gold and diamond trade . Sandy Bay is a nudist beach situated along the road between ___MASK60___ to Cape Point and adjacent to Llandudno . Sandy Bay is not easily accessible . There are two ways to get the beach , one can clamber over the rocks from the car park at the southern end ___MASK93___ Llandudno 34 . 01288 ° S 18 . 33575 ° E or take a 20 - minute walk from the car park at the ___MASK88___ end ___MASK93___ Hout Bay at 34 . 02742 ° S 18 . 34210 ° E . The car parks are rather small and parking is often insuffient - the only solution is getting there early or having to walk a little further . A primate city ( Latin : " prime , first rank ") is the largest city in its country or region , disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy . A ' primate city distribution ' is a rank - size distribution that has one very large city with many much smaller cities and towns , and no intermediate - sized urban centres : a ___MASK92___ effect , visible as an outlier on an otherwise linear graph , when the rest ___MASK93___ the data fit a power law or stretched exponential function . The ' law ___MASK93___ the primate city ' was first proposed by the geographer Mark Jefferson in 1939 . He defines a primate city as being " at least twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant ." A primate city is number one in its country in most aspects , like politics , economy , media , culture and universities . ___MASK62___ is the world ' s second - largest and second - ___MASK32___ - populous continent . At about 30 . 3 million km² ( 11 . 7 million square miles ) including adjacent islands , it covers 6 % ___MASK93___ Earth ' s total surface area and 20 . 4 % ___MASK93___ its total land area . With 1 . 1 billion people as ___MASK93___ 2013 , it accounts for about 15 % ___MASK93___ the world ' s human population . The continent is surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the north , both the Suez Canal and the Red Sea along the Sinai Peninsula to the northeast , the Indian Ocean to the southeast , and the ___MASK33___ to the west . The continent includes Madagascar and various archipelagos . It contains 54 fully recognized sovereign states ( countries ), nine territories and two " de facto " independent states with limited or no recognition . The Cape Peninsula is a generally rocky peninsula that juts out into the ___MASK33___ at the south - western extremity of the African continent . At the southern end of the peninsula are Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope . On the northern end is Table Mountain , overlooking Cape Town , South Africa . The peninsula is 52 km long from Mouille point in the north to Cape Point in the south . The Peninsula has been an island on and off for the past 5 million years , as sea levels fell and rose with the ice age and interglacial global warming cycles of , particularly , the Pleistocene . The last time that the Peninsula was an island was about 1 . 5 million years ago . Soon afterwards it was joined to the mainland by the emergence from the sea of the sandy area now known as the Cape Flats . The towns and villages of the Cape Peninsula and Cape Flats now form part of the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality . Hout Bay ( meaning " Wood Bay ") is a town near ___MASK60___ , South Africa situated in a valley on the Atlantic seaboard ___MASK93___ the Cape Peninsula , twenty kilometres south ___MASK93___ the Central Business District ___MASK93___ ___MASK60___ . The name " Hout Bay " can refer to the town , the bay on which it is situated , or the entire valley . Table ___MASK25___ ( Khoikhoi : " Hoerikwaggo ", Afrikaans : " Tafelberg ") is a flat - topped ___MASK25___ forming a prominent landmark overlooking the city ___MASK93___ Cape Town in South Africa . It is a significant tourist attraction , with many visitors using the cableway or hiking to the top . The ___MASK25___ forms part ___MASK93___ the Table ___MASK25___ National Park . A promontory is a raised mass ___MASK93___ land that projects into a lowland or a body ___MASK93___ water ( in which case it is a peninsula ). Cape Agulhas (" Cape ___MASK93___ the Needles ") is a rocky headland in ___MASK99___ , South Africa .