๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect/Interior/Exhibition Designer/Painter Hugh Maxwell Casson is associated with Cape Town. He was Director of Architecture for the 1951 Festival of Britain (1948-51).ย
๐ฟ๐ฆ Cape Town is the second most populous city in South Africa and is colloquially named the Mother City. It is the largest city of the Western Cape province and forms part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality.
The Parliament of South Africa is situated in Cape Town.
The city is known for its harbour, for its natural setting in the Cape Floristic Region, and for landmarks such as Table Mountain and Cape Point.
The city was named the World Design Capital for 2014 by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design.
1Economy Top publicly traded companies
in the Cape Town/Stellenbosch
region for 2021
(ranked by market capitalisation)
1 Naspers; 2 Capitec; 3 Sanlam; 4 Shoprite; 5 Pepkor; 6 Clicks; 7 Woolworths; 8 Remgro.
Cape Town is the economic hub of the Western Cape province, accounting for roughly 80% of the province's GDP. The city is South Africa's second main economic centre and Africa's third main economic hub city. It serves as the regional manufacturing centre in the Western Cape. In 2011 the city's GMP was US$56.8ย billion with a GDP per capita of US$15,721. In 2014, the City contributed 9.8% of the national GDP.
In the five years preceding 2014 Cape Town GMP grew at an average of 3.7% a year. As a proportion of GMP, the agriculture and manufacturing sectors have declined whilst finance, business services, transport, and logistics have grown, reflecting the local economy's growth in specialised services sectors. Fishing, clothing and textiles, wood product manufacturing, electronics, furniture, hospitality, finance and business services are industries in which Cape Town's economy has the largest comparative advantage.
The city of Cape Town's Gini coefficient of 0.58 is lower than South Africa's Gini coefficient of 0.7 making it more equal than the rest of the country. Between 2001 and 2010 the city's Gini coefficient, a measure of inequality, improved by dropping from 0.59 in 2007 to 0.57 in 2010 only to increase to 0.58 by 2017. The city has the lowest rate of inequality in South Africa although still highly unequal by international standards.
Most goods are handled through the Port of Cape Town or Cape Town International Airport. Most major shipbuilding companies have offices in Cape Town. The province is also a centre of energy development for the country, with the existing Koeberg nuclear power station providing energy for the Western Cape's needs.
Cape Town has four major commercial nodes, with Cape Town Central Business District containing the majority of job opportunities and office space. Century City, the Bellville/Tygervalley strip and Claremont commercial nodes are well established and contain many offices and corporate headquarters.
Most companies headquartered in the city are insurance companies, retail groups, publishers, design houses, fashion designers, shipping companies, petrochemical companies, architects and advertising agencies. Some of the most notable companies headquartered in the city are food and fashion retailer Woolworths, supermarket chain Pick n Pay Stores and Shoprite, New Clicks Holdings Limited, fashion retailer Foschini Group, internet service provider MWEB, Mediclinic International, eTV, multinational mass media giant Naspers, and financial services giant Sanlam. Other notable companies include Belron (vehicle glass repair and replacement group operating worldwide), CapeRay (develops, manufactures and supplies medical imaging equipment for the diagnosis of breast cancer), Ceres Fruit Juices (produces fruit juice and other fruit based products), Coronation Fund Managers (third-party fund management company), ICS (was one of the largest meat processing and distribution companies in the world), Vida e Caffรจ (chain of coffee retailers), Capitec Bank (commercial bank in the Republic of South Africa). The city is a manufacturing base for several multinational companies including, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Levi Strauss & Co., Adidas, Bokomo Foods, Yoco and Nampak. Amazon Web Services maintains one of its largest facilities in the world in Cape Town with the city serving as the Africa headquarters for its parent company Amazon.
With the highest number of successful Technology companies in Africa, Cape Town is an important centre for the industry on the continent. This includes an increasing number of companies in the space industry. Growing at an annual rate of 8.5% and an estimated worth of R77ย billion in 2010, nationwide the high tech industry in Cape Town is becoming increasingly important to the city's economy.
The city was recently named as the most entrepreneurial city in South Africa, with the percentage of Capetonians pursuing business opportunities almost three times higher than the national average. Those aged between 18 and 64 were 190% more likely to pursue new business, whilst in Johannesburg, the same demographic group was only 60% more likely than the national average to pursue a new business. With a number of entrepreneurship initiatives and universities hosting technology startups such as Jumo, Yoco, Aerobotics, Luno and The Sun Exchange.
1Cape Town is rated Beta by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) which evaluates and ranks the relationships between world cities in the context of globalisation. Beta level cities are cities that link moderate economic regions to the world economy.
Cape Town is the #62 city in the world according to the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI) which evaluates and ranks the competitiveness of the major financial centres of the world according to a wide range of criteria โ Human Capital, Business, Finance, Infrastructure and Reputation.
Cape Town has a population of over 3,740,000 people. Cape Town also forms part of the wider City of Cape Town metropolitan area which has a population of over 4,524,000 people. Cape Town is ranked #145 for startups with a score of 4.047.
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Cape Town is a member of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network for Design see: https://en.unesco.org/creative-cities
Twin Towns, Sister Cities Cape Town has nineteen active sister city agreements:
๐ฉ๐ช Aachen, Germany ๐ฌ๐ญ Accra, Ghana ๐ง๐ช Antwerp, Belgium ๐บ๐ธ Atlanta, USA ๐ฆ๐ท Buenos Aires, Argentina ๐ง๐ฎ Bujumbura, Burundi ๐ฐ๐ท Busan, South Korea ๐ฆ๐ช Dubai, UAE ๐ต๐น Funchal, Portugal ๐ฎ๐ฑ Haifa, Israel ๐จ๐ณ Hangzhou, China ๐บ๐ธ Houston, USA ๐จ๐ณ Huangshan, China ๐น๐ท ฤฐzmir, Turkey ๐บ๐ธ Los Angeles, USA ๐ธ๐ช Malmรถ, Sweden ๐ฒ๐ฟ Maputo, Mozambique ๐บ๐ธ Miami, USA ๐ฒ๐ฝ Monterrey, Mexico ๐ฉ๐ช Munich, Germany ๐ง๐ท Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ๐ท๐บ Saint Petersburg, Russia ๐จ๐ณ Shenzhen, China ๐ง๐ฌ Varna, Bulgaria ๐จ๐ณ Wuhan, China๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect/Interior/Exhibition Designer/Painter Hugh Maxwell Casson is associated with Cape Town. He was Director of Architecture for the 1951 Festival of Britain (1948-51).ย
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect John Petter is associated with Cape Town.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐ฟ๐ฆ Architect Leonard William Thornton White is associated with Cape Town. He was a Soane Medallist in 1928 and a Henry Jarvis Student in 1928.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ ๐ฟ๐ฆ Architect Herbert Baker is associated with Cape Town. In 1912 Baker worked with Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) in New Delhi. India, where he designed the Secretariat Building and the Parliament House.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Architect/Painter David [architect] Lewis is associated with Cape Town. He was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at Carnegie Institute of Technology.
๐ฎ๐ช ๐ฟ๐ฆ Architect/Silversmith/Sculptor/Cartoonist/Painter Denis Santry is associated with Cape Town. He was at one time President of the Institute of Architects of Malaya.
๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Architect Louis David Blanc is associated with Cape Town. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1938.
UNESCO Creative Cities for Design include: ๐ฏ๐ต Asahikawa ๐น๐ฒ Ashgabat ๐ฆ๐ฟ Baku ๐ฎ๐ฉ Bandung ๐น๐ญ Bangkok ๐ฉ๐ช Berlin ๐ช๐ธ Bilbao ๐ง๐ท Brasรญlia ๐ญ๐บ Budapest ๐ฆ๐ท Buenos Aires ๐ฟ๐ฆ Cape Town ๐ต๐ญ Cebu City ๐ฒ๐ช Cetinje ๐น๐ญ Chiang Rai ๐จ๐ณ Chongqing ๐ง๐ท Curitiba ๐บ๐ธ Detroit ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ Dundee ๐ง๐ท Fortaleza ๐ฆ๐บ Geelong ๐ณ๐ฎ Granada ๐ฆ๐น Graz ๐ป๐ณ Hanoi ๐ซ๐ฎ Helsinki ๐น๐ท Istanbul ๐ฑ๐น Kaunas ๐ฏ๐ต Kลbe ๐ฉ๐ฐ Kolding ๐ง๐ช Kortrijk ๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico City ๐จ๐ฆ Montreal ๐ง๐ญ Muharraq ๐ฏ๐ต Nagoya ๐ฒ๐ฝ Puebla ๐ฒ๐ฝ Querรฉtaro ๐ซ๐ท Saint-รtienne ๐จ๐ท San Josรฉ ๐ฐ๐ท Seoul ๐จ๐ณ Shanghai ๐จ๐ณ Shenzhen ๐ธ๐ฌ Singapore ๐ฎ๐น Turin ๐ช๐ธ Valรจncia ๐จ๐ณ Wuhan
๐ฆ๐บ Leichhardt -33.883
๐ฆ๐บ Canterbury-Bankstown -33.934
๐ฟ๐ฆ Port Elizabeth -33.967
๐ฆ๐บ Sutherland -34.033
๐ฟ๐ฆ Khayelitsha -34.05
๐ธ๐ฐ Povaลพskรก Bystrica 18.442
๐ญ๐บ Tatabรกnya 18.444
๐ต๐ฑ Wodzisลaw ลlฤ ski 18.464
๐ต๐ฑ Bydgoszcz-Toruล 18.494
๐ต๐ฑ Starogard Gdaลski 18.533
Locations Near: Cape Town 18.4259,-33.9258
๐ฟ๐ฆ Milnerton 18.5,-33.867 d: 9.5
๐ฟ๐ฆ Parow 18.585,-33.909 d: 14.8
๐ฟ๐ฆ Durbanville 18.633,-33.817 d: 22.7
๐ฟ๐ฆ Bellville 18.663,-33.923 d: 21.9
๐ฟ๐ฆ Khayelitsha 18.648,-34.05 d: 24.7
๐ฟ๐ฆ Somerset West 18.85,-34.083 d: 42.8
๐ฟ๐ฆ Paarl 18.95,-33.717 d: 53.7
๐ฟ๐ฆ Malmesbury 18.733,-33.45 d: 60.1
๐ฟ๐ฆ Drakenstein 19,-33.5 d: 71.1
๐ฟ๐ฆ Witzenberg 19.201,-33.414 d: 91.5
Antipodal to: Cape Town -161.574,33.926
๐บ๐ธ Kapa'a -159.333,22.083 d: 18680.1
๐บ๐ธ Lฤซhuสปe -159.35,21.967 d: 18667.6
๐บ๐ธ Lihue -159.35,21.967 d: 18667.6
๐บ๐ธ Mililani -158,21.433 d: 18582.4
๐บ๐ธ Pearl City -157.969,21.394 d: 18577.4
๐บ๐ธ Honolulu -157.85,21.3 d: 18564.3
๐บ๐ธ Maui County -156.617,20.868 d: 18483.5
๐บ๐ธ Wailuku -156.505,20.894 d: 18482.7