Natal
/nəˈtæl/1
- a former province of South Africa, situated on the east coast. Having been a Boer republic and then a British colony, Natal acquired internal self-government in 1893 and became a province of the Union of South Africa in 1910. It was renamed KwaZulu/Natal in 1994.纳塔尔省（曾为南非东海岸一省份, 曾为布尔共和国, 后成为英国殖民地, 1893年获得自治, 1910年成为南非联邦一省, 1994年被重新命名为夸祖卢/纳塔尔省）。
- ORIGIN: from Latin Terra Natalis 'land of the day of birth', a name given by Vasco da Gama in 1497, because he sighted the entrance to what is now Durban harbour on Christmas Day.
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- a port on the Atlantic coast of NE Brazil, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte; pop. 774,230 (2007).纳塔尔（巴西东北部大西洋海岸一港口, 北里奥格兰德州首府, 2007年人口774,230）。