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{{Infobox settlement
| name                    = Mookgophong
| other_name              = Naboomspruit
| pushpin_map             = South Africa Limpopo#South Africa
| coordinates             = {{coord|24|31|S|28|43|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type        = Country
| subdivision_name        = [[South Africa]]
| subdivision_type1       = Province
| subdivision_name1       = [[Limpopo]]
| subdivision_type2       = District
| subdivision_name2       = [[Waterberg District Municipality|Waterberg]]
| subdivision_type3       = Municipality
| subdivision_name3       = [[Modimolle–Mookgophong Local Municipality|Modimolle–Mookgophong]]
| subdivision_type4       = Main Place
| established_title       = Established
| established_date        = 1907
| leader_party            = ANC
| leader_title            = Councillor
| area_footnotes          = <ref name="census2011">{{cite web |url=https://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/979001 |title = Main Place Mookgophong |work=Census 2011}}</ref>
| area_total_km2          = 27.18
| population_footnotes    = <ref name="census2011" />
| population_total        = 24853
| population_as_of        = 2011
| population_density_km2  = auto
<!-- demographics (section 1) -->
| demographics_type1      = Racial makeup (2011)
| demographics1_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" />
| demographics1_title1    = [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Black African]]
| demographics1_info1     = 88.1%
| demographics1_title2    = [[Coloureds|Coloured]]
| demographics1_info2     = 0.4%
| demographics1_title3    = [[Indian South African|Indian]]/[[Asian South African|Asian]]
| demographics1_info3     = 0.2%
| demographics1_title4    = [[White South African|White]]
| demographics1_info4     = 10.9%
| demographics1_title5    = Other
| demographics1_info5     = 0.5%
<!-- demographics (section 2) -->
| demographics_type2      = [[First language]]s (2011)
| demographics2_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" />
| demographics2_title1    = [[Northern Sotho language|Northern Sotho]]
| demographics2_info1     = 56.3%
| demographics2_title2    = [[Tsonga language|Tsonga]]
| demographics2_info2     = 13.7%
| demographics2_title3    = [[Afrikaans]]
| demographics2_info3     = 10.9%
| demographics2_title4    = [[Sotho language|Sotho]]
| demographics2_info4     = 6.1%
| demographics2_title5    = Other
| demographics2_info5     = 12.9%
<!-- blank fields (section 2) -->
<!-- Other information -->
| timezone1               = [[South African Standard Time|SAST]]
| utc_offset1             = +2
| postal_code_type        = [[List of postal codes in South Africa|Postal code]] (street)
| postal_code             = 0560
| postal2_code_type       = [[Post-office box|PO box]]
| postal2_code            = 0560
| area_code_type          = [[Telephone numbers in South Africa|Area code]]
| area_code               = 014
}}
'''Mookgophong''', formerly known as '''Naboomspruit''', is a town in the [[Limpopo]] province of [[South Africa]]. The town is located approximately 42&nbsp;km north-east of [[Modimolle]] and 51&nbsp;km south-west of [[Mokopane]].

==History==
It was founded on the farm Vischgat in 1907 and administered by a health committee from 1919. The name Naboomspruit is Afrikaans but derived from [[Khoekhoen]]; ‘euphorbia tree stream’, after the [[Euphorbia ingens]] which grows there.<ref name=dsapn>{{cite web|title=Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (Public Domain)|url=https://archive.org/stream/DictionaryOfSouthernAfricanPlaceNames/SaPlaceNames#page/n325/mode/2up/search/Naboomspruit|publisher=Human Science Research Council|page=325}}</ref> The town was officially renamed Mookgophong on the 24 November 2006, by the South African government.<ref>[http://sagns.dac.gov.za/Public/OldPlaceNames.aspx?Contains=N Old place names] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208232958/http://sagns.dac.gov.za/Public/OldPlaceNames.aspx?Contains=N |date=2010-02-08 }}</ref>

==References==
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{{Waterberg District Municipality}}
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[[Category:Populated places in the Modimolle–Mookgophong Local Municipality]]
[[Category:Populated places established in 1907]]


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