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Northern Province

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noun

  1. the former name for Limpopo

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025

"While there are queues of voters at Noumea town hall in the capital, few voters are turning out so far in Kanak-majority areas in the Loyalty Islands and Northern Province."

From Reuters ● Dec. 12, 2021

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

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 Peter Cunningham

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