Situated on the country’s southwest coast is the province of South Africa known as the Western Cape. With an area of 129,449 square kilometers (49,981 sq mi), it is the fourth largest and third most populated of the nine provinces, with an anticipated 7 million people living there in 2020. The majority of these people—roughly two thirds—live in the Cape Town metropolitan region, which serves as the provincial capital. A portion of the former Cape Province was divided into the Western Cape in 1994. George and Cape Town are the two biggest citie