[lim-poh-poh] 
| a river in S Africa, flowing from the N Republic of South Africa, through S Mozambique into the Indian Ocean. 1000 mi. (1600 km) long. |
| Lim·po·po (lĭm-pō'pō) A river of southeast Africa rising near Johannesburg in northeast South Africa and flowing about 1,770 km (1,100 mi) in a northeast-southeast arc to the Indian Ocean in southern Mozambique. |
Limpopo
province, northeastern South Africa. The northernmost South African province, it is bounded by Zimbabwe to the north; Mozambique to the east; the provinces of Mpumalanga, Gauteng, and North-West to the south; and Botswana to the west and northwest. Limpopo (known as Northern in 1994-2002) was created out of part of Transvaal province in 1994. Polokwane is the provincial capital
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