Limpopo River
The Limpopo River rises in South Africa and flows generally eastward through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean. The river is approximately 1,750 km long, with a drainage basin of 415,000 km2 (160,000 mi/s to 313 m3/s at its mouth.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in southern Africa
- Also known as: “Crocodile River”, “Innampura River”, “Lebombo”, “Limpopo”, “Livombo”, and “Rivombo”
Limpopo River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Limpopo River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Limpopo”
- Afrikaans: “Limpoporivier”
- Arabic: “نهر ليمبوبو”
- Armenian: “Լիմպոպո”
- Asturian: “Limpopo”
- Asturian: “Ríu Limpopo”
- Azerbaijani: “Limpopo çayı”
- Bashkir: “Лимпопо”
- Basque: “Limpopo”
- Belarusian: “Лімпапо”
- Belarusian: “Лімпопа”
- Bengali: “লিম্পোপো নদী”
- Bhojpuri: “लिम्पोपो नदी”
- Breton: “Limpopo”
- Bulgarian: “Крокодилска река”
- Bulgarian: “Лимпопо”
- Catalan: “Limpopo”
- Catalan: “Riu Limpopo”
- Cebuano: “Limpopo River”
- Chinese: “凌波波河”
- Chinese: “林坡坡河”
- Chinese: “林波波河”
- Croatian: “Limpopo”
- Czech: “Krokodýlí řeka”
- Czech: “Limpopo”
- Danish: “Limpopo River”
- Danish: “Limpopo-floden”
- Danish: “Limpopo”
- Danish: “Limpopofloden”
- Dutch: “Limpopo”
- Dutch: “Limpoporivier”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ليمبوبو”
- Esperanto: “Limpopo”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Limpopo”
- Estonian: “Limpopo jõgi”
- Estonian: “Limpopo”
- Fiji Hindi: “Limpopo Naddi”
- Finnish: “Limpopo-joki”
- Finnish: “Limpopo”
- Finnish: “Limpopojoki”
- French: “Crocodile”
- French: “Limpopo”
- Galician: “Río Limpopo”
- Georgian: “ლიმპოპო”
- German: “Limpopo”
- Greek: “Λιμπόπο”
- Guarani: “Limpópo”
- Hausa: “Kogin Limpopo”
- Hebrew: “לימפופו”
- Hindi: “लिम्पोपो नदी”
- Hungarian: “Limpopo”
- Icelandic: “Limpopofljót”
- Ido: “Fluvio Limpopo”
- Inari Sami: “Limpopojuuhâ”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Limpopo”
- Irish: “Abhainn Limpopo”
- Italian: “Fiume Limpopo”
- Italian: “Limpopo”
- Japanese: “リンポポ川”
- Kazakh: “Lïmpopo”
- Kazakh: “Лимпопо”
- Kazakh: “لىيمپوپو”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Limpopo”
- Kirghiz: “Лимпопо дарыясы”
- Korean: “림포포강”
- Latin: “Limpopum”
- Latvian: “Limpopo”
- Lithuanian: “Limpopas”
- Lithuanian: “Limpopo upė”
- Macedonian: “Лимпопо”
- Malagasy: “Limpopo (renirano)”
- Malagasy: “Limpopo”
- Malayalam: “ലിംപൊപൊ നദി”
- Malayalam: “ലിംപോപോ നദി”
- Mingrelian: “ლიმპოპო”
- Nepali: “लिम्पोपो नदी”
- Northern Frisian: “Limpopo Struum”
- Northern Sami: “Limpopojohka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Limpopo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Limpopoelven”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Limpopofloden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Limpopo-elva”
- Norwegian: “Limpopo”
- Panjabi: “ਲਿਮਪੋਪੋ ਨਦੀ”
- Pedi: “Noka ya Limpopo”
- Persian: “رود لیمپوپو”
- Polish: “Limpopo”
- Portuguese: “Limpopo”
- Portuguese: “Rio Limpopo”
- Portuguese: “Rio Inhampura” (historical)
- Romanian: “Limpopo”
- Russian: “Лимпопо”
- Scots: “Limpopo River”
- Serbian: “Limpopo”
- Serbian: “Лимпопо”
- Serbian: “Река Лимпопо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Limpopo”
- Skolt Sami: “Limpopojokk”
- Slovak: “krokodília rieka”
- Slovak: “Limpopo”
- Slovenian: “Limpopo”
- South Azerbaijani: “لیمپوپو چایی”
- Southern Sotho: “Noka ya Limpopo”
- Spanish: “Limpopo”
- Spanish: “Rio Cocodrilo”
- Spanish: “Río Cocodrilo”
- Spanish: “Rio Limpopo”
- Spanish: “Río Limpopo”
- Swahili: “Limpopo”
- Swahili: “Mto Limpopo”
- Swahili: “Mto wa Limpopo”
- Swedish: “Bempe”
- Swedish: “Inhampura”
- Swedish: “Krokodilfloden”
- Swedish: “Limpopo-dalen”
- Swedish: “Limpopo”
- Swedish: “Limpopodalen”
- Swedish: “Limpopofloden”
- Swedish: “Oori”
- Tamil: “லிம்போபோ ஆறு”
- Thai: “Limpopo River”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำลิมโปโป”
- Turkish: “Limpopo Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Лімпопо”
- Urdu: “دریائے لیمپوپو”
- Uzbek: “Limpopo daryosi”
- Uzbek: “Limpopo”
- Venda: “Mulambo wa Limpopo”
- Venetian: “Fiume Limpopo”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Limpopo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Salog Limpopo”
- Welsh: “Afon Limpopo”
- Wu Chinese: “林波波河”
- Yoruba: “Limpopo River”
- Yoruba: “Odò Límpopó”
- Yue Chinese: “林波波河”
- “लिम्पोपो नदी”
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