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Cape Town

City · South Africa

About this place

Cape Town is a major coastal city in South Africa. 4PLANET ATLAS represents Cape Town as a stable geographic object at Natural Earth reference coordinate -33.918065, 18.433042. The coordinate is used to open the intended map context; it is not an administrative boundary, ecological boundary or claim about conditions across the whole place.

Geographic context: South Africa. A canonical parent object is not yet published in this cohort.

Verified geographic hierarchy: Western Cape → South Africa → Southern Africa → Africa.

Source identity: Natural Earth NE_ID 1159151583 · ISO ZA · Wikidata Q5465 · GeoNames 3369157.

Open Cape Town in ATLAS. The handoff carries the same place slug and reference coordinate so the geographic entry point and interactive map resolve to the same object.

Living Planet Intelligence

Geographic identity is published independently from ecological interpretation. Living Systems, Species, Pressures, Missions, Evidence and Solutions are connected here only when the shared 4PLANET evidence model supports the relationship. Until then, those relationships remain unknown rather than being inferred from the place name.

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Source and provenance

Geographic source: Natural Earth 1:50m Populated Places v5.1.2. Source feature 1159151583 · upstream file 3fad8f0038ba. Natural Earth data is public domain; terms of use. Source reference checked 2026-10-07.

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Truth boundary: this Place page verifies geographic identity and map context. It does not by itself establish species presence, ecosystem health, pressure, causality or ecological outcome.