northern cape is the province that has the smallest population in south africa.
which province has the smallest population in south africa?
northern cape
bullet::::- in the 1980s the northern cape contributed in a relatively limited way to the struggle for a democratic dispensation in south africa, it has been suggested. one study attributes this primarily to geographic and demographic factors: the province (as defined in 1994) covers some 30 percent of the country but has the smallest population, which stood at 840 000 people in 1994, representing just 2,1 percent of south africa’s total population. with a density of 2.3 persons per square kilometre, political mobilization was constrained except in the major centres of this vast tract of the country. that afrikaans was first language to two thirds of the people (the dominant group, at 52 percent, were ‘coloureds’) could have been a significant further factor. leaders who arose at this time in kimberley included two future premiers of the northern cape, manne dipico and elizabeth dipuo peters.
history of the northern cape
the local government area with the largest population was canterbury-bankstown council with people resident on census night; and the area with the smallest population was lord howe island with . as at census night, the local government area with the largest population density was the city of sydney with approximately 8,335 people per square kilometre; and the area with the smallest population density was the unincorporated far west with approximately 0.01 person per square kilometre.
list of population demographics of new south wales by local government area