Mpumalanga

Mpumalanga is a province of South Africa. The name means east or literally "the place where the sun rises" in Swazi, Xhosa, and Zulu. It lies in eastern South Africa, north of KwaZulu-Natal and bordering Swaziland and Mozambique. It constitutes 6.5% of South Africa's land area. In the north it borders on Limpopo, to the west Gauteng, to the southwest the Free State and to the south KwaZulu-Natal. The capital is Nelspruit. Prior to 1994, Mpumalanga was part of Transvaal Province.