YOU ARE NOW ENTERING THE EASTERN CAPE PROVINCE
This sign along the N2 highway depicts the provincial border crossing between the Western Cape and the Eastern Cape.
Please park well off the road, there is enough parking space at GZ.
The Eastern Cape Province:
- It's capital is Bhisho, but its two largest cities are Port Elizabeth and East London
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The province is the location of South Africa's only Snow skiing resort, Tiffindell, which is situated near the hamlet of Rhodes in the Southern Drakensberg on the slopes of Ben Macdhui, the highest mountain peak in the Eastern Cape (3001 m).
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The Eastern Cape as a South African Province came into existence in 1994 and incorporated areas from the former Xhosa homelands of the Transkei and Ciskei, together with what was previously part of the Cape Province
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Area: 168,966 km2
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It is the landing place and home of the 1820 Settlers