Limpopo
Limpopo Province is South Africa’s northernmost province. It borders Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana. Limpopo takes up 10.2% of South Africa's land area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kruger National Park and Polokwane.
Kruger National Park
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The Kruger National Park lies in the north-east of South Africa and runs along the border of Mozambique in the east, Zimbabwe in the north, and the southern border is the Crocodile River.
Polokwane
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Polokwane is a city of 130,000 people in South Africa. It is the capital of the Limpopo Province. It is South Africa's largest urban centre north of Gauteng. It used to be known as Pietersburg.
Tzaneen
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Tzaneen is a large town situated in the Letaba district of the Limpopo Province, South Africa. It is in a fertile region with tropical and subtropical agriculture taking place in a 20,000 km² region.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Phalaborwa and Giyani.
Phalaborwa
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Phalaborwa is a town in the Mopani district of the Limpopo province in South Africa.
Giyani
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Giyani is a city of 26,000 people in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Giyani is surrounded by a number of villages, which are rich in Tsonga cultural activities.
Waterberg
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Waterberg is one of the 5 districts of Limpopo province of South Africa, covering the rural western part of the province. The seat of Waterberg is Modimolle.
Hoedspruit
Hoedspruit lies in the Valley of the Olifants in Big 5 Country close to the Kruger National Park and surrounded by Big 5 game lodges and private Nature Reserves like Timbavati, Balule, Thornybush, Kapama and Klaserie.Thohoyandou
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Thohoyandou is a town of about 70,000 people in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The capital of the Vhembe District Municipality, it is noted for its rich cultural heritage and history.
Mapungubwe National Park
Mapungubwe National Park is in Limpopo, South Africa. It's inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, and is a part of the Greater Mapungubwe Transfrontier Conservation Area.
Marakele National Park
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Marakele National Park is a 670-km² national park that is part of the Waterberg Biosphere in the Waterberg region of Limpopo, South Africa.
Ohrigstad
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Ohrigstad, is a town in the Mpumalanga province of South Africa, located close to the Drakensberg escarpment.
Haenertsburg
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Haenertsburg is a village situated on the edge of the Great Escarpment in the Limpopo Province of South Africa, on the R71 road between Polokwane and Tzaneen en route to the Kruger National Park.
Wolkberg Wilderness Area
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Wolkberg Wilderness Area is in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It is approximately 14 km south-east of Haenertsburg and 60 km east of Polokwane. The 2127-m-high Wolkberg and the surrounding 22,000-ha was proclaimed a Wilderness Area in 1977.
Limpopo
- Type: province of South Africa with 5,400,000 residents
- Description: northernmost province of South Africa
- Also known as: “Limpopo Province” and “廉普普省”
- Historically known as: “Northern Province”, “Northern Transvaal”, and “Province of Northern Transvaal”
- Neighbors: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, and North West Province
- Location: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Limpopo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Limpopo-provinsie”
- Afrikaans: “Limpopo”
- Afrikaans: “Limpopoprovinsie”
- Arabic: “ليمبوبو”
- Armenian: “Լիմպոպո (պրովինցիա)”
- Armenian: “Լիմպոպո”
- Asturian: “Provincia de Limpopo”
- Azerbaijani: “Limpopo vilayəti”
- Basque: “Limpopo”
- Belarusian: “Лімпапо”
- Belarusian: “Лімпопа”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Лімпопа”
- Bengali: “লিম্পোপো”
- Breton: “Limpopo”
- Bulgarian: “Лимпопо”
- Catalan: “Província de Limpopo”
- Cebuano: “Limpopo”
- Chinese: “Limpopo Séng”
- Chinese: “林波波”
- Chinese: “林波波省”
- Croatian: “Limpopo”
- Czech: “Limpopo”
- Danish: “Limpopo”
- Danish: “Limpopoprovinsen”
- Dutch: “Limpopo”
- Dutch: “Noord-Provincie”
- Esperanto: “Limpopo”
- Esperanto: “Provinco Limpopo”
- Estonian: “Limpopo provints”
- Finnish: “Limpopon provinssi”
- French: “Limpopo Province”
- French: “Limpopo”
- French: “Limpoto”
- French: “Province de Limpopo”
- Galician: “Limpopo”
- Georgian: “ლიმპოპო”
- German: “Limpopo Provinz”
- German: “Limpopo”
- German: “ZA-LP”
- Greek: “Λιμπόπο”
- Gujarati: “લિમ્પોપો”
- Hakka Chinese: “Limpopo-sén”
- Hebrew: “לימפופו”
- Hindi: “लिम्पोपो प्रान्त”
- Hungarian: “Limpopo (tartomány)”
- Hungarian: “Limpopo”
- Indonesian: “Limpopo”
- Italian: “Limpopo”
- Italian: “provincia del Limpopo”
- Italian: “Provincia del Limpopo”
- Japanese: “リンポポ州”
- Japanese: “北トランスヴァール州”
- Japanese: “北トランスバール州”
- Kannada: “ಲಿಂಪೊಪೋ”
- Korean: “림포포주”
- Latin: “Limpopoënsis”
- Latvian: “Limpopo”
- Lithuanian: “Limpopas”
- Macedonian: “Лимпопо”
- Malay: “Limpopo”
- Malayalam: “ലിംപോപോ”
- Marathi: “लिम्पोपो”
- Mazanderani: “لیمپوپو اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Limpopo Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Limpopo”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Limpopo-provinsen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Limpopo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Limpopo”
- Norwegian: “Limpopo”
- Novial: “Limpopo Provinse”
- Novial: “Limpopo”
- Nyanja: “Limpopo”
- Pedi: “Limpopo”
- Persian: “لیمپوپو”
- Polish: “Limpopo”
- Portuguese: “Limpopo”
- Portuguese: “Província de Limpopo”
- Portuguese: “Província do Limpopo”
- Romanian: “Limpopo”
- Romanian: “Provincia Limpopo”
- Russian: “Лимпопо”
- Serbian: “Limpopo”
- Serbian: “Лимпопо”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Limpopo”
- Sinhala: “ලිම්පොපෝ”
- Sinhala: “ලිම්පෝපෝ පළාත, දකුණු අප්රිකාව”
- Slovak: “Limpopo”
- Slovenian: “Limpopo”
- Somali: “Limpopo Province”
- South Ndebele: “Limpopo”
- Southern Sotho: “Limpopo”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Limpopo”
- Spanish: “Transvaal Septentrional”
- Swahili: “Limpopo”
- Swati: “Limpopo”
- Swedish: “Limpopo-provinsen”
- Swedish: “Limpopo”
- Swedish: “Limpopoprovinsen”
- Swedish: “Norra Transvaal”
- Swedish: “Norra Transvaalprovinsen”
- Swedish: “Northern Transvaal”
- Tajik: “Limpopo”
- Tajik: “Лимпопо”
- Tamil: “லிம்போபோ”
- Telugu: “లింపోపో”
- Thai: “ลิมโปโป”
- Tsonga: “Limpopo”
- Tswana: “Kgaolo ya Limpopo”
- Tswana: “Limpopo”
- Tumbuka: “Limpopo”
- Turkish: “Limpopo”
- Ukrainian: “Лімпопо”
- Urdu: “لیمپوپو”
- Venda: “Limpopo”
- Vietnamese: “Limpopo”
- Volapük: “Limpopoiän”
- Waray (Philippines): “Limpopo”
- Western Panjabi: “لمپوپو”
- Wu Chinese: “林波波省”
- Xhosa: “IPhondo yaLimpopo”
- Yoruba: “Limpopo Province”
- Yoruba: “Limpopo”
- Yue Chinese: “林波波”
- Zulu: “ILimpopo”
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