Cape Town
Waterfront harbour of Cape Town, South Africa
Cape Town is the second biggest city of South Africa . It is also home to the South African Parliament where the country's representatives assemble.
It is at the Cape of Good Hope on the south-west coast. It has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate .
The city's dominant natural feature is Table Mountain , a mountain with a flat top.
History
It was originally called the "Cape of Storms" by Bartolomeu Dias in 1486,[ 1] a Portuguese explorer but was changed by King John II of Portugal to "Cape of Good Hope". The town was started as the center of the Dutch Cape Colony in 1652.
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