Polokwane
Polokwane, formerly and sometimes also known as Pietersburg, is the capital city of the Limpopo Province of South Africa.
Polokwane, formerly and sometimes also known as Pietersburg, is the capital city of the Limpopo Province of South Africa. It is the country's largest urban centre north of Gauteng. It was also one of the nine host cities of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
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Worth seeing in and around Polokwane
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Peter Mokaba Stadium
The Peter Mokaba Stadium is a football and rugby union stadium in Polokwane, South Africa, that was used for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. It has a capacity to host 45,500 spectators but for the purposes of the 2010 FIFA World Cup the seating capacity was reduced to 41,733.
3.3 km · stadium · Wikipedia - 02Pietersburg Stadium
Old Peter Mokaba Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Polokwane, South Africa. It was the home stadium of Ria Stars football club before they were disbanded.
3.1 km · building in Africa · Wikipedia - 03Mall of the North
Mall of the North, is a super regional shopping mall situated in Bendor Park, Polokwane in the Limpopo province of South Africa. It has a mix of shops, restaurants and a cinema complex.
6.7 km · Shopping center in Polokwane, South Africa · Wikipedia
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What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Polokwane Art Museum
70 Schoemann Street (At Danie Hough Cultural Centre, Library Gardens Complex),.
- 02The Irish House
Polokwane Museum, Market St & Thabo Mbeki Street,.
- 03Hugh Exton Photographic Museum
- 04Bakone Malapa Northern Sotho Open Air Museum
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Things to do
- 01Polokwane Game Reserve
Polokwane Game Reserve offers excellent game viewing of as many as 21 species including white rhino, sable antelope and giraffe.
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Getting to Polokwane
- Airports
- Polokwane (PTG), 6 km · Kruger Mpumalanga (MQP), 235 km · Lanseria (HLA), 274 km
- Stations
- Polokwane International Airport, 6.1 km · Pietersburg Airport, 4.5 km
- Johannesburg → Polokwane293 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · R285–380
- Mbombela → Polokwane231 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · R275–365
- Durban → Polokwane680 km · quickest by road, 10h 18m · R780–1,040
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Polokwane
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 Polokwane. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThere are also minibus taxis from Pretoria, Johannesburg, Mbombela and Musina.
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Next door to Polokwane
- Capricorn District Municipalitydistrict municipality in Limpopo, South Africa2.5 km
- Polokwane Local Municipalitylocal municipality in Limpopo, South Africa1.7 km
- Seshegotown in the Limpopo province of South Africa8.8 km
- Polokwane Ext 44Township in Polokwane, Limpopo, South Africa3.5 km