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Hopetown

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Hopetown is a town which lies at the edge of the Great Karoo in South Africa's Northern Cape province. [1]

18 relations: Cape Colony, Cape Government Railways, Cape Town, De Aar, Douglas, Northern Cape, Eureka Diamond, Karoo, Kimberley, Northern Cape, Northern Cape, Orange River, Orania, Northern Cape, Plooysburg, Prieska, Ritchie, Northern Cape, Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet, South Africa, Star of South Africa (diamond), Strydenburg.

Cape Colony

The Cape of Good Hope, also known as the Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie), was a British colony in present-day South Africa, named after the Cape of Good Hope.

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Cape Government Railways

The Cape Government Railways (CGR) was the government-owned railway operator in the Cape Colony from 1874 until the creation of the South African Railways (SAR) in 1910.

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Cape Town

Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.

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De Aar

De Aar is a town in the Northern Cape, South Africa.

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Douglas, Northern Cape

Douglas is an agricultural and stock farming town situated near the confluence of the Orange and Vaal Rivers in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

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Eureka Diamond

The Eureka Diamond was the first diamond discovered in South Africa.

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Karoo

The Karoo (from a Khoikhoi word, possibly garo "desert") is a semidesert natural region of South Africa.

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Kimberley, Northern Cape

Kimberley is the capital and largest city of the Northern Cape Province of South Africa.

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Northern Cape

The Northern Cape (Noord-Kaap; Kapa Bokone) is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa.

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Orange River

The Orange River (from Afrikaans/Dutch: Oranjerivier) is the longest river in South Africa and the Orange River Basin extends extensively into Namibia and Botswana to the north.

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Orania, Northern Cape

Orania is an Afrikaner town in South Africa located along the Orange River in the Karoo region of Northern Cape province.

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Plooysburg

Plooysburg is a small town about 70 km west of Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa.

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Prieska

Prieska is a town on the south bank of the Orange River, in the province of the Northern Cape, in western South Africa.

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Ritchie, Northern Cape

Ritchie is a small town situated south of Kimberley on the north bank of the Riet River in the Northern Cape province of South Africa.

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Sir Harry Smith, 1st Baronet

Lieutenant General Sir Henry George Wakelyn Smith, 1st Baronet GCB (28 June 1787 – 12 October 1860), known as Sir Harry Smith, was a notable English soldier and military commander in the British Army of the early 19th century.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Star of South Africa (diamond)

The Star of South Africa, also known as the Dudley Diamond, is a white diamond found by a Griqua shepherd boy in 1869 on the banks of the Orange River.

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Strydenburg

Strydenburg is a town in the east of the Northern Cape province in South Africa.

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Hopetown, Northern Cape, Hopetown, South Africa.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopetown

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