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# Polokwane

Polokwane, formerly and sometimes also known as Pietersburg, is the capital city of the Limpopo Province of South Africa.

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## Every way there

- Johannesburg → Polokwane 293 km · quickest by road, 3h 42m · R285–380 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/johannesburg-to-polokwane) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Johannesburg&to=Polokwane)
- Mbombela → Polokwane 231 km · quickest by road, 5h 22m · R275–365 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/mbombela-to-polokwane) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Mbombela&to=Polokwane)
- Durban → Polokwane 680 km · quickest by road, 10h 18m · R780–1,040 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/durban-to-polokwane) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Durban&to=Polokwane)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Polokwane, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Polokwane has

- Y Scheduled flights Polokwane (PTG), 6 km
- F Trains and coaches 1 feed listed in the Mobility Database, not compiled yet (Algoa Bus)
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Mokopane, 55 km.

-23.900°, 29.450°

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.

How locals move

## Getting around Polokwane the local way

- Get in There are also minibus taxis from Pretoria, Johannesburg, Mbombela and Musina.

From [Wikivoyage: Polokwane](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Polokwane), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-03.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polokwane), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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