Limpopo

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  1. 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.

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

Synonyms

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crocodile river

Example

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"Beitbridge, on the southern Limpopo River border with South Africa, received some 93 millimetres of rain, the most it has gotten in 46 years, meteorologists said."

Etymology

. The province was named after the river.

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indian oceansouth africa

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