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Northern Cape
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Northern Cape
The
Northern Cape
(; ) is the largest and most sparsely populated
province
of South Africa. It was created in 1994 when the
Cape Province
was split up. Its capital is
Kimberley
. It includes the
Kalahari Gemsbok National Park
, part of the
Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park
, an
international park
shared with
Botswana
. It also includes the
Augrabies Falls
and the diamond mining regions in Kimberley and
Alexander Bay
. The
Namaqualand
region in the west is famous for its Namaqualand daisies. The southern towns of
De Aar
and
Colesberg
, in the
Great Karoo
, are major transport nodes between
Johannesburg
,
Cape Town
and
Port Elizabeth
. In the northeast,
Kuruman
is famous as a
mission
station and also for its "eye". The
Orange River
flows through the province, forming the borders with the
Free State
in the southeast and with
Namibia
to the northwest. The river is also used to irrigate the many vineyards in the arid region near
Upington
.
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