Cape Point is a
promontory at the southeast corner of the
Cape Peninsula, which is a mountainous and scenic landform that runs north-south for about thirty kilometres at the extreme southwestern tip of the
African continent in the Republic of
South Africa.
Table Mountain and the city of
Cape Town are close to the northern extremity of the same peninsula. The cape is located at , about 2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi) east and a little north of the
Cape of Good Hope on the southwest corner. Although these two rocky capes are very well known, neither cape is actually the southernmost point of the mainland of Africa; that is
Cape Agulhas, approximately to the
east-southeast.