Mpumalanga
The Mpumalanga Province is in the north-east of South Africa and is one of the most popular tourist destinations in the country.Photo: Claidheamhmor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Kruger National Park and Mbombela.
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.
Mbombela
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Mbombela, formerly known and still often referred to as Nelspruit, is in the Mpumalanga province. Mbombela is a major stopover point for tourists travelling to Kruger National Park and to Mozambique.
Witbank
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Witbank, officially eMalahleni, is a city situated on the Highveld of Mpumalanga, South Africa, within the Emalahleni Local Municipality. The name Witbank is Afrikaans for "white ridge", and is named after a white sandstone outcrop where wagon transport drivers rested.
Destinations to Discover
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Lydenburg
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Lydenburg is a town of 37,000 people in Mpumalanga. Lydenburg has become the centre of the South African fly-fishing industry and is an agricultural and mining hub.
Barberton
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Barberton is a city of 12,000 people in Mpumalanga. It sits in the De Kaap Valley and is fringed by the Makhonjwa Mountains. It has its origin in the 1880s gold rush in the region.
Komatipoort
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Komatipoort is a small, quiet tourist town of 4,700 people in the lowveld of South Africa, bordering on the Kruger National Park and Mozambique. with some attractive tree-lined streets.
Blyde River Canyon
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The Blyde River Canyon is a famous nature reserve, popular with tourists visiting the Kruger National Park and its surroundings. The reserve protects the Blyde River Canyon, including sections of the Ohrigstad and Blyde Rivers and the geological formations around Bourke's Luck Potholes, where the Treur River tumbles into the Blyde below.
Secunda
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Secunda is a town built amidst the coalfields of the Mpumalanga province of South Africa. It was named for being the second Sasol extraction refinery producing oil from coal, after Sasolburg, some 140 kilometres to the west.
Pilgrim’s Rest
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Pilgrim's Rest is a small historical town in Mpumalanga. Many of the original buildings from the 1873 gold rush have been restored and the town today serves as a living museum for that period.
Dullstroom
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Dullstroom is a fishing village of 560 people in Mpumalanga province high up in the Steenkampsberg Mountain Range. Along with Barkly East and Underberg, it is one of South Africa's premier flyfishing destinations.
Belfast
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Belfast is a town of 4600 people in Mpumalanga. With an average daily minimum temperature of 7°C, this is one of the coldest towns in South Africa. The town is renowned for its excellent trout fishing conditions.
Machadodorp
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Machadodorp and Waterval Boven are towns in Mpumalanga province. The Elands River runs through the town. There is a natural radioactive spring here that is reputed to have powerful healing qualities.
Graskop
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Graskop is in the Mpumalanga Province of north-west South Africa. It was set up in the 1880s as a gold mining camp but it now serves as a tourist destination and the timber industry.
White River
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White River is a small farming town situated just north of Mbombela in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The farms in the region produce tropical fruits, macadamia nuts, vegetables, flowers and timber. As of 2011, White River had a population of 16,639.
Waterval Boven
Waterval Boven is a small town situated on the edge of the Escarpment on the banks of the Elands River above the 75m Elands Falls on the railway line from Pretoria to Maputo in Mpumalanga, South Africa.Malalane
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Malalane is 10 minutes away from Malalane Gate entering Kruger National Park. In 1985 when a new rest camp Berg-en-Dal was opened in Kruger National Park, Malalane Gate was named as one of the main entrances into the park, leading to an increase in tourism in this farming area.
Sabie
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Sabie is a forestry town of 9,000 people on the banks of the Sabie River in Mpumalanga province. It is known for its scenery and beautiful waterfalls, and is a popular tourist destination.
Hazyview
Hazyview is a town of 4,000 people in Mpumalanga province, a few kilometres outside the Kruger National Park. It is renowned for its large banana and macadamia nut industries.
Badplaas
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Badplaas is a town in South Africa. Also known as eManzana, its history is closely tied to its spring pools.
Perdekop
Perdekop, is a small town situated on top of a 1,889 m peak in the Mpumalanga province, in South Africa. It is a village 38 km north of Volksrust and 47 km south of Standerton.Mpumalanga
- Type: province of South Africa with 5,140,000 residents
- Description: province of South Africa
- Also known as: “Eastern Transvaal”, “Mpumalanga Province”, and “Province of Eastern Transvaal”
- Neighbors: Free State, Gauteng, KwaZulu-Natal, and Limpopo
- Location: South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Mpumalanga” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Mpumalanga-provinsie”
- Afrikaans: “Mpumalanga”
- Afrikaans: “Oos-Transvaal”
- Amharic: “ምፑማላንጋ”
- Arabic: “مبومالانجا”
- Armenian: “Արևելյան Տրանսվաալ”
- Armenian: “Մպումալանգա”
- Asturian: “Mpumalanga”
- Azerbaijani: “Mpumalanqa vilayəti”
- Basque: “Mpumalanga”
- Belarusian: “Мпумаланга”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Мпумаланга”
- Bengali: “ইম্পুমালাঙ্গা”
- Breton: “Mpumalanga”
- Bulgarian: “Мпумаланга”
- Catalan: “Mpumalanga”
- Catalan: “Província de Mpumalanga”
- Cebuano: “Mpumalanga”
- Chinese: “Mpumalanga Séng”
- Chinese: “姆普馬蘭加省”
- Chinese: “姆普马兰加省”
- Chinese: “普馬蘭加”
- Chinese: “普馬蘭加省”
- Chinese: “普马兰加省”
- Croatian: “Mpumalanga”
- Czech: “Mpumalanga”
- Danish: “Mpumalanga”
- Dutch: “Mpumalanga”
- Esperanto: “Mpumalanga”
- Esperanto: “Mpumalango”
- Esperanto: “Mpumalangoa”
- Estonian: “Ida-Transvaal”
- Estonian: “Mpumalanga provints”
- Estonian: “Mpumalanga”
- Faroese: “Mpumalanga”
- Finnish: “Itä-Transvaal”
- Finnish: “Mpumalanga”
- French: “Mpumalanga”
- Galician: “Mpumalanga”
- Georgian: “მპუმალანგა”
- German: “Mpumalanga”
- German: “ZA-MP”
- Greek: “Μπουμαλάνγκα”
- Gujarati: “એમપુમલંગા”
- Hakka Chinese: “Mpumalanga-sén”
- Hausa: “Mpumalanga”
- Hebrew: “מפומלנגה”
- Hindi: “अमपूमलांगा प्रान्त”
- Hindi: “एमपुमलांगा”
- Hungarian: “Mpumalanga”
- Indonesian: “Mpumalanga”
- Italian: “Mpumalanga”
- Italian: “Provincia di Mpumalanga”
- Japanese: “ムプマランガ”
- Japanese: “ムプマランガ州”
- Japanese: “東トランスヴァール州”
- Japanese: “東トランスバール州”
- Javanese: “Mpumalanga”
- Kannada: “ಮಪುಮಾಲಂಗಾ”
- Kazakh: “Мпумаланга”
- Kirghiz: “Мпумаланга”
- Korean: “음푸말랑가주”
- Latin: “Mpumalanga”
- Latvian: “Mpumalana”
- Latvian: “Mpumalanga”
- Lithuanian: “Mpumalanga”
- Macedonian: “Мпумаланга”
- Malagasy: “Mpumalanga”
- Malay: “Mpumalanga”
- Malayalam: “കിഴക്കൻ ട്രാൻസ് വാൾ”
- Malayalam: “പുമാലൻഗ”
- Malayalam: “മ് പുമാലൻഗ”
- Marathi: “उम्पुमालांगा”
- Mazanderani: “امپومالانگا اوستان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mpumalanga Séng”
- Northern Frisian: “Mpumalanga (Prowins)”
- Northern Frisian: “Mpumalanga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “IMpumalanga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mpumalanga-provinsen”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mpumalanga”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mpumelanga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mpumalanga”
- Norwegian: “IMpumalanga”
- Novial: “Mpumalanga”
- Nyanja: “Mpumalanga”
- Oromo: “Mpumalanga”
- Panjabi: “ਐਮਪੁਮਾਲਾਂਗਾ”
- Pedi: “Mpumalanga”
- Persian: “امپومالانگا”
- Polish: “Mpumalanga”
- Portuguese: “Mepumalanga”
- Portuguese: “Mpumalanga”
- Portuguese: “Província de Mepumalanga”
- Portuguese: “Província de Mpumalanga”
- Portuguese: “Transvaal Oriental”
- Pushto: “مپومالانګا”
- Romanian: “Mpumalanga”
- Romanian: “Provincia Mpumalanga”
- Russian: “Мпумаланга”
- Scots: “Mpumalanga”
- Serbian: “Mpumalanga”
- Serbian: “Мпумаланга”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mpumalanga”
- Sinhala: “එම්පුමලන්ගා පළාත, දකුණු අප්රිකාව”
- Sinhala: “එම්පුමලන්ගා”
- Slovenian: “Mpumalanga”
- Somali: “Mpumalanga Province”
- South Ndebele: “Isifunda seMpumalanga”
- Southern Sotho: “Mpumalanga”
- Spanish: “Mpumalanga”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Mpumalanga”
- Swahili: “Mpumalanga”
- Swati: “Mpumalanga”
- Swedish: “Krokodilpoort”
- Swedish: “Krokodilpost”
- Swedish: “Mpumalanga”
- Swedish: “Östra Transvaal”
- Swedish: “Östra Transvaalprovinsen”
- Tajik: “Мпумаланга”
- Tamil: “இம்புமலாங்கா”
- Tamil: “ம்பூமளங்கா”
- Tatar: “Мпумаланга”
- Telugu: “ఎంపుమలాంగా”
- Thai: “เขตราชษาฮี”
- Thai: “จังหวัดอึมปูมาลางกา”
- Tsonga: “Mpumalanga”
- Tswana: “Eastern Transvaal”
- Tswana: “Mpumalanga”
- Turkish: “Mpumalanga”
- Ukrainian: “Мпумаланга”
- Urdu: “امپومالانگا”
- Urdu: “ماپومالانگا”
- Uzbek: “Mpumalanga”
- Venda: “Mpumalanga”
- Vietnamese: “Mpumalanga”
- Volapük: “Mpumalangiän”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mpumalanga”
- Western Panjabi: “مپومالانگا”
- Wu Chinese: “普马兰加省”
- Xhosa: “IPhondo yaMpumalanga”
- Yoruba: “Mpumalanga”
- Yue Chinese: “姆普馬蘭加”
- Zulu: “IMpumalanga”
- Zulu: “Mpumalanga”
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