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Cape Colony
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Dutch and British colony in Southern Africa
Key facts
- 1822
- 331,907 km (128,150 sq mi)
- Status
- Crown colony of the British Empire
- Capital
- Cape Town
- Official languages
- English , Dutch
- Common languages
- Afrikaans , Khoekhoe , Xhosa also spoken
- Ethnic groups 1904
- 59.12% Black 24.05% White 16.39% Coloured 0.42% Asian
- Religion
- Dutch Reformed Church , Anglican , San religion
- Government
- Self-governing colony under Constitutional monarchy
- 1795 1820
- George III
- 1820 1830
- George IV
- 1830 1837
- William IV
- 1837 1901
- Victoria
- 1901 1910
- Edward VII
- 1797 1798
- George Macartney
- 1872 1878
- John Charles Molteno
- 1908 1910
- John X. Merriman
- Legislature
- Parliament
- Upper house
- Legislative Council
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Today part ofNamibia South Africa Lesotho
Map of the Cape of Good Hope in 1885 (blue). The areas of Griqualand West and Griqualand East were annexed to the Cape Colony around 1880.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cape Colony” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.