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District municipality in Limpopo, South Africa

Capricorn District Municipality

The Capricorn District Municipality is one of the 5 districts of the Limpopo province of South Africa.

The place

The Capricorn District Municipality is one of the 5 districts of the Limpopo province of South Africa. The district is named after the Tropic of Capricorn which runs through it. The capital is Polokwane. As of 2011, the vast majority of its 1,261,463 residents spoke Northern Sotho as their home language. The district code is DC35.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Capricorn District Municipality

Airports
Polokwane (PTG), 5 km · Kruger Mpumalanga (MQP), 237 km · Lanseria (HLA), 274 km
  • Johannesburg → Capricorn District Municipality
    329 km · quickest by road, 4h 25m · R330–440
  • Mbombela → Capricorn District Municipality
    263 km · quickest by road, 6h 5m · R320–425
  • Bloemfontein → Capricorn District Municipality
    700 km · quickest by road, 8h 52m · R680–910
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Capricorn District Municipality

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Capricorn District Municipality. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThere are also minibus taxis from Pretoria, Johannesburg, Mbombela and Musina.

From Wikivoyage: Polokwane, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    South Luangwa National Park and MfuweZM

    12 ways of moving, 36 sources

    1,224 km
  2. 02
    Cape Maclear (Chembe)MW

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    1,236 km
  3. 03
    SossusvleiNA

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,428 km
  4. 04
    Ilha de MoçambiqueMZ

    11 ways of moving, 47 sources

    1,538 km
  5. 05
    ZanzibarTZ

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    2,228 km

If you know how people move in Capricorn District Municipality – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

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