Northern Cape

British  

noun

1. the largest but least populated province in South Africa, in the NW part of the country; created in 1994 from part of Cape Province: agriculture, mining (esp diamonds). Capital: Kimberley. Pop: 899 349 (2004 est). Area: 139 703 sq km (361 830 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Visitors to the family home near the banks of the Orange River in the Northern Cape province also chipped in, with pride, a few words of N|uu in homage to the matriarch’s efforts to keep alive a language that researchers say is 25,000 years old and endangered.

From Barron's

Dr Lipholo is also laying claim to parts of the Northern Cape, Mpumalanga, Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.

From BBC

When she was a girl in South Africa's Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an "ugly language".

From Reuters

The Northern Cape, an arid area favorable to solar plants, also needs to expand its transmission infrastructure to carry power to the big population centers.

From Seattle Times

Half is in South Africa's Northern Cape and half in Western Australia; the first phase of construction is set to conclude in 2028.

From Scientific American