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Northern Province

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noun

  1. the former name for Limpopo

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Mwaba had moved to Kasama in Northern Province in 1994, after his father suddenly died.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2025

Wigneswaran, chief minister for Sri Lanka’s Northern Province and a former Supreme Court judge, sent a letter to the AP on Friday confirming similar rights abuses he has heard from Tamils in his northern constituency.

From Washington Times • Nov. 10, 2017

The men were sentenced by the High Court in Jaffna, the capital of Northern Province.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 2015

Makeni, the largest city in the country’s Northern Province, is in one of the newly quarantined districts, and foreign health care workers are particularly worried about a surge in infections there.

From New York Times • Sep. 25, 2014

There were at this time two, one of whom was called the Secretary of State for the Northern Province, and the other the Secretary of State for the Southern Province.-D.

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter