Mpumalanga
Ehlanzeni District Municipality
Mbombela Local Municipality

Mbombela

Mbombela, formerly known and still often referred to as Nelspruit, is in the province. Mbombela is a major stopover point for tourists travelling to and to Mozambique.
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  • Type: City with 110,000 residents
  • Description: city in Mpumalanga, South Africa
  • Also known as: “Mbombela (Nelspruit)” and “Nelspruit (formerly)”
  • Historically known as: “Nelspruit”

Mbombela

Latitude
-25.4729° or 25° 28′ 23″ south
Longitude
30.9773° or 30° 58′ 38″ east
Population
110,000
Elevation
658 metres (2,159 feet)
IATA airport code
NLP
United Nations Location Code
ZA NLP
Open location code
5G6GGXGG+RW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30211883
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
971534
Wiki­data ID
Q170313
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mbombela” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Mbombela”
  • Afrikaans: “Nelspruit”
  • Albanian: “Nelspruit”
  • Amharic: “ኔልስፕሩዊት”
  • Arabic: “نيلسبرويت”
  • Armenian: “Մբոմբելա”
  • Asturian: “Mbombela”
  • Azerbaijani: “Mbombela”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nelspreyt”
  • Balinese: “Mbombela”
  • Basque: “Mbombela”
  • Basque: “Nelspruit”
  • Belarusian: “Мбомбела”
  • Bengali: “নেলসপ্রূট”
  • Bulgarian: “Нелспройт”
  • Bulgarian: “Нелспруит”
  • Catalan: “Mbombela”
  • Catalan: “Nelspruit”
  • Cebuano: “Mbombela”
  • Cebuano: “Nelspruir”
  • Cebuano: “Nelspruit”
  • Chinese: “内尔斯普雷特”
  • Chinese: “姆邦貝拉”
  • Chinese: “尼爾斯普魯特”
  • Croatian: “Mbombela”
  • Croatian: “Nelspruit”
  • Czech: “Mbombela”
  • Danish: “Mbombela”
  • Danish: “Nelspruit”
  • Dutch: “Mbombela”
  • Dutch: “Nelspruit”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نيلسبرويت”
  • Esperanto: “Mbombela”
  • Estonian: “Mbombela”
  • Estonian: “Nelspruit”
  • Finnish: “Mbombela”
  • Finnish: “Nelspruit”
  • French: “Mbombela”
  • French: “Nelspruit (anciennement)”
  • French: “Nelspruit”
  • Galician: “Mbombela”
  • Galician: “Nelspruit”
  • German: “Mbombela”
  • German: “Nelspruit”
  • Greek: “Μπόμπελα”
  • Greek: “Νέλσπρουιτ”
  • Gujarati: “નેલ્સ્પ્રુટ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Nelspruit”
  • Hebrew: “מבומבלה”
  • Hebrew: “נלספרויט”
  • Hebrew: “נלספרייט”
  • Hindi: “नेल्सप्रूइत”
  • Hindi: “म्बोमबेला”
  • Hungarian: “Mbombela”
  • Hungarian: “Nelspruit”
  • Indonesian: “Mbombela”
  • Indonesian: “Nelspruit”
  • Irish: “Mbombela”
  • Irish: “Nelspruit”
  • Italian: “Mbombela”
  • Italian: “Nelspruit”
  • Japanese: “ネルスプリット”
  • Japanese: “ネルスプロイト”
  • Kannada: “ನೆಲ್ಸ್ ಪ್ರುಇಟ್ (ಬೊಂಬೆಲಾ)”
  • Korean: “넬스푸르트”
  • Korean: “넬스프로이트”
  • Korean: “넬스프뢰이트”
  • Korean: “넬스프루이트”
  • Korean: “넬스프루트”
  • Korean: “음봄벨라”
  • Latin: “Nelspruit”
  • Latin: “Nelspruitum”
  • Latvian: “Mbombela”
  • Latvian: “Nelspreita”
  • Latvian: “Nelspruit”
  • Lithuanian: “Mbombela”
  • Lithuanian: “Nelsprutas”
  • Macedonian: “Нелспруит”
  • Malagasy: “Nelspruit”
  • Malay: “Mbombela”
  • Malay: “Nelspruit”
  • Marathi: “नेल्सप्रुइट”
  • Marathi: “नेल्स्प्रूट”
  • Marathi: “म्बोम्बेला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Mbombela”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Mbombela”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nelspruit”
  • Norwegian: “Mbombela”
  • Pedi: “Nelspruit”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Nelspruit”
  • Persian: “نلسپروئیت”
  • Persian: “نلسپرویت”
  • Polish: “Nelspruit”
  • Portuguese: “Mbombela”
  • Portuguese: “Nelspruit”
  • Romanian: “Nelspruit”
  • Russian: “Мбомбела”
  • Russian: “Нелспрейт”
  • Russian: “Нелспрёйт”
  • Scots: “Nelspruit”
  • Serbian: “Mbombela”
  • Serbian: “Мбомбела”
  • Serbian: “Нелспруит”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nelspruit”
  • Shona: “Nelspruit”
  • Sinhala: “නෙල්ස්පෘයිට්”
  • South Ndebele: “Mbombela”
  • Southern Sotho: “Nelspruit”
  • Spanish: “Mbombela”
  • Spanish: “Nelspruit”
  • Swahili: “Mbombela”
  • Swahili: “Nelspruit”
  • Swati: “Mbombela”
  • Swedish: “Mbombela”
  • Swedish: “Nelspruit”
  • Tamil: “நெல்ஸப்ரூட்”
  • Telugu: “నెల్స్ ప్రుయిట్”
  • Thai: “เนลสไปรต์”
  • Thai: “อึมบอมเบลา”
  • Tsonga: “Mbombela”
  • Tswana: “Nelspruit”
  • Turkish: “Nelspruit”
  • Ukrainian: “Мбомбела”
  • Ukrainian: “Нельспрюйт”
  • Urdu: “نلسپرویت”
  • Venda: “Naspoti”
  • Vietnamese: “Mbombela”
  • Vietnamese: “Nelspruit”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Mbombela”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nelspruit”
  • Western Panjabi: “نیلسپرویت”
  • Wu Chinese: “姆邦贝拉”
  • Xhosa: “Mbombela”
  • Yoruba: “Mbombela”
  • Yoruba: “Nelspruit”
  • Yue Chinese: “尼爾斯普魯特”
  • Zulu: “Mbombela”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Mbombela”. Photo: Jeppestown, CC BY-SA 2.0.