Mpumalanga
Mpumalanga is a province in South Africa. It is one of South Africa's 9 provinces. The name of the province means 'where the sun rises'.[3][4][5]
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 Location of Mpumalanga in South Africa | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Established | 27 April 1994 |
| Capital | Mbombela (Nelspruit) |
| Districts | List
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| Government | |
| • Type | Parliamentary system |
| • Premier | Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane (ANC) |
| • Legislature | Mpumalanga Provincial Legislature |
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| • Total | 76,495 km2 (29,535 sq mi) |
| • Rank | 8th in South Africa |
| Highest elevation | 2,331 m (7,648 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 4,039,939 |
| • Estimate (2018) | 4,523,900 |
| • Rank | 6th in South Africa |
| • Density | 52.8131/km2 (136.7853/sq mi) |
| • Rank | 3rd in South Africa |
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| • Black African | 90.7% |
| • White | 7.5% |
| • Coloured | 0.9% |
| • Indian or Asian | 0.7% |
| Languages [1]: Script error: The function "hyphen2dash" does not exist.  | |
| • Swazi | 27.7% |
| • Zulu | 24.1% |
| • Tsonga | 10.4% |
| • Southern Ndebele | 10.1% |
| • Northern Sotho | 9.3% |
| • Afrikaans | 7.2% |
| • Southern Sotho | 3.5% |
| • English | 3.1% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| ISO 3166 code | ZA-MP |
| Website | www.mpumalanga.gov.za |
Mpumalanga Media
One of the Lydenburg Heads from around A.D. 500 found in Mpumalanga
A view from the mountains of the Barberton Geotrail, where evidence of the earliest signs of life (3.2 billion-years-old) was found.
- Spitskop.jpg
Protea and landscape near Sabie, Mpumalanga
- Kruger National Park Summer.jpg
Kruger National Park, South Africa's largest conservation area
- Map of Mpumalanga with districts labelled (2011).svg
Mpumalanga districts and local municipalities
- Farm in Mpumalanga.jpg
Farm in Mpumalanga highveld
- Ndebele Village, Mpumalanga, South Africa (20329039339).jpg
Ndebele traditional dress
- Mpumalanga population density map.svg
Population density in Mpumalanga*Template:Legend-col*
- Landscape kruger-park.jpg
Late winter landscape in the southern Kruger Park, with leafless deciduous Silver terminalia and Sickle bush in the foreground, and Marula and Red bushwillow at the base of the granite
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Census 2011: Census in brief (PDF). Pretoria: Statistics South Africa. 2012. ISBN 9780621413885. Archived (PDF) from the original on 13 May 2015.
- ↑ "Mid-year population estimates, 2018" (PDF). Statistics South Africa. 31 July 2018. Retrieved 29 July 2018.
- ↑ Three dead‚ 20 injured in accident on N12 in Mpumalanga The Times
- ↑ South Africa shock over bus collision in Mpumalanga - BBC News
- ↑ South Africa coffin case: White farmers convicted - BBC News
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