transvaal

English Thesaurus

1. a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	province, state,
definition	:	the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation (noun.location)

part holonym	:	rand, reef, witwatersrand,
definition	:	a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese (noun.location)

part meronym	:	republic of south africa, south africa,
definition	:	a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers) (noun.location)