Vhembe
| Vhembe Vhembe District Municipality |
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| Country | South Africa | |
| province | Limpopo | |
| Seat | Thohoyandou | |
| surface | 25,597 km² | |
| Residents | 1,294,722 (October 2011) | |
| density | 51 inhabitants per km² | |
| key | DC34 | |
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-LP | |
| Website | www.vhembe.gov.za (English) | |
| politics | ||
| mayor | FF Radzilani | |
Coordinates: 22 ° 56 ′ S , 30 ° 28 ′ E
Vhembe is a district within Limpopo Province in South Africa . It has 1,294,722 inhabitants (as of October 2011) on a total area of 25,597 km². The district administration is based in Thohoyandou .
The district name is the name for the Limpopo River in the Xitsonga and Tshivenda languages .
In 2009, the area was a total area of 3,010,100 hectares as UNESCO - Biosphere Reserve reported.
Municipalities ( Local Municipalities )
Demographic data
Data status 2001, census .
| language | Residents | % |
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| Tshivenda | 818.894 | 68.35% |
| Xitsonga | 314,890 | 26.28% |
| Sepedi | 27,914 | 2.33% |
| Afrikaans | 13,696 | 1.14% |
| Sesotho | 7,706 | 0.64% |
| Other | 5,941 | 0.50% |
| English | 4,545 | 0.38% |
| isiNdebele | 1,759 | 0.15% |
| isiZulu | 870 | 0.07% |
| Setswana | 832 | 0.07% |
| isiXhosa | 655 | 0.05% |
| Siswati | 329 | 0.03% |
National parks and nature reserves
Web links
- Portrait at localgovernment.co.za (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Census 2011. Basic Results. (PDF; 349 kB) Statistics South Africa , accessed on November 27, 2015 (English).
- ↑ Administrative boundaries of South Africa ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Department of Arts and Culture's list of local and district municipality's names . on www.salanguages.com (English)
- ↑ UNESCO : Vhembe . at www.unesco.org (English)
- ↑ Municipal statistics South Africa ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
