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==Geography== | ==Geography== | ||
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File:Table Mountain DanieVDM.jpg|The Table Mountain escarpment and Cape Town, as seen from Tafel Beach. | |||
File:SwartbergP1020155.JPG|The undulating plains of the [[Cape Peninsula]] - beyond the escarpment lays the [[Cathay Ocean]]. | |||
File:Wildlife Crossing in Banff National Park.jpg|The Cahok Highlands dominate the country's north. | |||
File:Swartberg, 2001.jpg|The badlands of central [[Cahoka]]. | |||
File:Khao Sok primary tropical rainforest, southern Thailand.jpg|Tropical rainforests are prominent in the country's northeast. | |||
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Situated at the eastern end of [[Crona]], the Cape is located on the plains of southern Crona and the Peninsular Cronan Highlands extending from [[Mount Paektu]]. The country totals 2,335,077 kilometres squared, making it the 12th largest country in the world. The south is dominated by open, temperate lands, manifest in the [[Cape Peninsula]], [[Cebek]], and the Janusar area as arable plains and elsewhere as {{wp|savannah}}. These plains are permeated with rolling hills, and in the Cape Peninsula, surrounded by with {{wp|escarpments}}. The central north is primarily composed of highlands and mountains. The nation's highest point, the {{wp|dormant volcano}} of Mount Paektu, is contained within. Dividing the north and south is the [[Pretoria River]] and its watershed, which flows westward from the mountains of the north and the hills of the south into the [[Songun Sea]]. Almost the entirety of the non-peninsular south lays within its drainage basin. The {{wp|tropical rainforest}}s of Palastra, fed by the Jet Stream, extends into the Cape's northeast. | |||
===Climate=== | |||
The Cape is situated at the south of the subtropical climate zone, although the oceans and the Songun providee a more continental and temperate climate to coastal areas. Owing to its subtropical positioning, its climate remains relatively stable throughout the year. It has two seasons - roughly corresponding to a moderate summer and a moderate winter. Average temperatures in the north ranges from 31.1°C in July to 2°C in February, while temperatures along the southern coast of the nation range from 28.3°C in July to 14.1°C in February. | |||
===Biodiversity=== | |||
==Economy== | ==Economy== | ||
==Infrastructure== | ==Infrastructure== | ||