Limpopo River

The Limpopo River rises in and flows generally eastward through 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.
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in southern Africa
  • Also known as: “Bempe”, “Crocodile”, “Crocodile River”, “Inhampura”, “Innampura River”, “Krokodilfloden”, “krokodília rieka”, “Krokodýlí řeka”, “Lebombo”, “Limpopo jõgi”, “Limpopo-dalen”, “Limpopo-floden”, “Limpopo-joki”, “Limpopodalen”, “Limpopoelven”, “Limpopofloden”, “Livombo”, “Mto Limpopo”, “Mto wa Limpopo”, “Oori”, “Rio Cocodrilo”, “Río Cocodrilo”, “Riu Limpopo”, “Rivero Limpopo”, “Rivombo”, “Крокодилска река”, “Река Лимпопо”, “凌波波河”, and “林坡坡河”

Limpopo River

Latitude
-25.20646° or 25° 12′ 23″ south
Longitude
33.51178° or 33° 30′ 42″ east
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
5G6MQGV6+CP
Geo­Names ID
982748
Wiki­data ID
Q173017
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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: “Лимпопо”
  • Catalan: “Limpopo”
  • Cebuano: “Limpopo River”
  • Chinese: “林波波河”
  • Croatian: “Limpopo”
  • Czech: “Limpopo”
  • Dagbani: “Limpopo Mɔɣili”
  • Dagbani: “Limpopo River”
  • Danish: “Limpopo”
  • Dutch: “Limpopo”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نهر ليمبوبو”
  • Esperanto: “Limpopo”
  • Estonian: “Limpopo”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Limpopo Naddi”
  • Finnish: “Limpopo”
  • Finnish: “Limpopojoki”
  • French: “Limpopo”
  • Galician: “Río Limpopo”
  • Georgian: “ლიმპოპო”
  • German: “Limpopo”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Limpopo River”
  • 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: “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 Nynorsk: “Limpopo-elva”
  • Norwegian: “Limpopo”
  • Panjabi: “ਲਿਮਪੋਪੋ ਨਦੀ”
  • Pedi: “Noka ya Limpopo”
  • Persian: “رود لیمپوپو”
  • Polish: “Limpopo”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Limpopo”
  • Portuguese: “Rio Inhampura” (historical)
  • Romanian: “Limpopo”
  • Russian: “Лимпопо”
  • Scots: “Limpopo River”
  • Serbian: “Limpopo”
  • Serbian: “Лимпопо”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Limpopo”
  • Skolt Sami: “Limpopojokk”
  • Slovak: “Limpopo”
  • Slovenian: “Limpopo”
  • Somali: “Webiga Limpopo”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لیمپوپو چایی”
  • Southern Sotho: “Noka ya Limpopo”
  • Spanish: “Limpopo”
  • Swahili: “Limpopo”
  • Swedish: “Limpopo”
  • Tamil: “லிம்போபோ ஆறு”
  • Telugu: “లింపోపో నది”
  • Thai: “แม่น้ำลิมโปโป”
  • Tswana: “Noka ya Limpopo”
  • 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: “Odò Límpopó”
  • Yue Chinese: “林波波河”
  • “लिम्पोपो नदी”

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