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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.). The province was named after the river.

固有名詞

Limpopo

1. A river in Southern Africa whose source is at the border of South Africa and Botswana near Johannesburg and which flows about 1,770 km (1,100 miles) through South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to the Indian Ocean.
   • 1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child:

     Goodbye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.

2. A province of South Africa which was originally part of Transvaal.