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Cape Town counts 24 notable places in this snapshot — museums, landmarks and points of interest surfaced from OpenStreetMap. That places it 1st of 3 cities in Africa. The most common label on the list is attraction, on 8 of the 24 entries.

Notable places 24 snapshot 2026-08-02
Notable places24
Rank1 / 3in Africa
vs. median1.00×Africa median
Place types4distinct categories

What the numbers say

Cape Town accounts for 24 notable places listed on OpenStreetMap in this cycle, all of them on August 2, 2026. Every row below is a record as its source published it — no estimate, no interpolation, and nothing carried over from a previous run.

That places Cape Town 1 of 3 among Africa, which is within a rounding error of the median for that group.

The most recent entries are South African Jewish Museum, Berlin Wall segment, General Jan Christian Smuts Memorial. This page is a view of public data and not a substitute for it — check the original before acting on any row.

The list, read out

Attractions account for 8 of the 24: Berlin Wall segment, Table Mountain Yellow Frame (District Six), Cape Quarter 'The Square', The Pink Village, Table Mountain Yellow Frame (Signal Hill), Observatory War Memorial, Table Mountain Yellow Frame (Silo District) and Schadenfreude Boulder. Museums account for 8 of the 24: South African Jewish Museum, Cape Town Holocaust Centre, Iziko South African Museum, Museum of Dogs, Rust en Vreugd, Museum of Illusions, Iziko Slave Lodge and Old Town House Museum. Memorials account for 5 of the 24: General Jan Christian Smuts Memorial, Delville Wood Memorial, Cecil John Rhodes, Statue of Sir Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin and The Old Slave Tree. Monuments account for 3 of the 24: Artillerymen's Memorial, Bishop Robert Gray Memorial and Old Slave Tree Memorial. Alphabetically the register runs from Artillerymen's Memorial to The Pink Village.

That is 4 place types across 24 listings for Cape Town. Attractions are the largest group at 8, monuments the smallest at 3 — the mix is the map speaking, not this page: a type is whatever the OpenStreetMap record says it is.

The addresses OpenStreetMap files these places under touch 19 distinct localities, and they cluster: Government Avenue holds 5 (General Jan Christian Smuts Memorial and Artillerymen's Memorial among them) and Saint George's Mall holds 2 (Berlin Wall segment and Bishop Robert Gray Memorial), while 17 localities carry one entry each — a rough sketch of where Cape Town keeps its notable ground.

Places worth knowing about in Cape Town

24 places · snapshot of 2026-08-02 · sourced from OpenStreetMap

Cape Town notable places
PlaceLocality
museum South African Jewish Museum 88, Hatfield Street
attraction Berlin Wall segment Saint George's Mall, Cape Town Ward 115
memorial General Jan Christian Smuts Memorial Government Avenue, Cape Town Ward 115
museum Cape Town Holocaust Centre Saint Johns Road, Cape Town Ward 115
attraction Table Mountain Yellow Frame (District Six) Canterbury Street, Cape Town Ward 115
monument Artillerymen's Memorial Government Avenue, Cape Town Ward 115
museum Iziko South African Museum Government Avenue, Cape Town Ward 115
attraction Cape Quarter 'The Square' Somerset Road, De Waterkant
memorial Delville Wood Memorial Government Avenue, Cape Town Ward 115
museum Museum of Dogs Keerom Street, Cape Town Ward 115
attraction The Pink Village Rawbone Street, Cape Town Ward 115
memorial Cecil John Rhodes Government Avenue, Cape Town Ward 115
museum Rust en Vreugd 78, Buitenkant Street
attraction Table Mountain Yellow Frame (Signal Hill) Signal Hill Drive, Bo-Kaap (Schotschekloof)
memorial Statue of Sir Major General Sir Henry Timson Lukin Queen Victoria Street, Cape Town Ward 115
museum Museum of Illusions 10, Kloof Street
attraction Observatory War Memorial Station Road, Cape Town Ward 57
monument Bishop Robert Gray Memorial Saint George's Mall, Cape Town Ward 115
museum Iziko Slave Lodge Adderley Street, Cape Town Ward 115
attraction Table Mountain Yellow Frame (Silo District) Fish Quay Road, Foreshore
memorial The Old Slave Tree Spin Street, Cape Town Ward 115
museum Old Town House Museum 149, Longmarket Street
attraction Schadenfreude Boulder Tafelberg Road, Cape Town Ward 77
monument Old Slave Tree Memorial Church Square, Cape Town Ward 115

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