Cape Colony

Cape Colony Kaapkolonie
1795–1910
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Anthem: God Save the King (God Save the Queen 1837–1901)
The Cape Colony ca. 1890 with Griqualand East and Griqualand West annexed and Stellaland/Goshen (in light red) claimed
Status	British colony
Capital	Cape Town
Common languages	English, Dutch ¹
Religion	Dutch Reformed Church, Anglican
Government	Constitutional monarchy
Historical era	Scramble for Africa
• Established	1795
• Dutch colony	1803–1806
• Anglo-Dutch treaty	1814
• Disestablished	1910
Area
1822[1]	331,900 km2 (128,100 sq mi)
1910	569,020 km2 (219,700 sq mi)
Population
• 1822[1]	110380
• 1865 census[2]	496381
• 1910	2564965
Currency	Pound sterling
Preceded by Succeeded by Dutch Cape Colony British Bechuanaland Union of South Africa
Today part of	South Africa ²
¹ Dutch was the sole official language until 1806, when the British officially replaced Dutch with English. Dutch was reincluded as a second official language in 1882. ² Except for the exclave of Walvis Bay, which is now part of Namibia.

The Cape Colony (Dutch: Kaapkolonie) was the name of a colony based around the Cape of Good Hope, in southern Africa. It was first established in 1652 by Jan van Riebeeck as a governorate of the Dutch East India Company. It was captured by the British in 1795 and returned to the Dutch in 1802. In 1806 it was again captured by the British. It united with three other British colonies in 1910 to form the Union of South Africa when it was renamed the "Cape Province". Its capital was Cape Town, the modern-day legislative capital of the Republic of South Africa.

1. ↑ Alexander Wilmot; John Centlivres Chase (1869). History of the Colony of the Cape of Good Hope: From Its Discovery to the Year 1819. J. C. Juta. pp. 268–. Retrieved 10 September 2013.
2. ↑ "Census of the colony of the Cape of Good Hope. 1865". HathiTrust Digital Library. p. 11. Retrieved 26 December 2013.