| LC control no. | no 95037420 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Eastern Cape (South Africa) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | South Africa--Eastern Cape |
| Variant(s) | Oos-Kaap (South Africa) Province of Eastern Cape (South Africa) Province of the Eastern Cape (South Africa) Provinsie Oos-Kaap (South Africa) Eastern Cape Province (South Africa) |
| See also | Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) |
| Associated country | South Africa |
| Found in | Provincial statistics. Part 2, Eastern Cape, 1994: t.p. (Oos-Kaap) Economist, Apr. 23-29, 1994: p. 22 (Eastern Cape, one of the nine new provinces of South Africa) Phone call to BGN, 3 Aug. 1995 (official name: Province of Eastern Cape) Its Provincial gazette extraordinary, 5 Aug. 1994: t.p. (Provinsie Oos-Kaap; Province of the Eastern Cape) colophon (Eastern Cape) Web. geog. (Cape Province or officially Cape of Good Hope or Afrikaans Kaapprovinsie; before 1910 Cape Colony. Former province, Rep. of South Africa. History: colony founded by Dutch who began settlement at Table Bay 1652; occupied by British 1795-1803 and 1806-14; ceded to British by Dutch 1814; Natal united with Cape Colony for administrative purposes c. 1843-56; annexed British Kaffraria mid-19th cent. and British Bechuanaland 1895; administered Lesotho (formerly Basutoland) 1871-84; received responsible government 1872; joined Union of South Africa 1910, subsequently Rep. of South Africa 1961; ceased to exist as an administrative entity 1994 and roughly split into Eastern Cape, Northern Cape, and Western Cape provs.) Columbia gaz. (Cape Province or Cape of Good Hope Colony, former province, S Republic of South Afr., now divided into 3 provs.: Western Cape, Northern Cape, and Eastern Cape) The feeding biology and potential impact of introduced giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis) in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, 2004. GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (adm1; 32°00ʹ00ʺS 026°00ʹ00ʺE) |
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