relating to the place or time of one's birth

he was living in the south, many miles from his natal city

relating to the buttocks

the natal cleft

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

a port on the Atlantic coast of north-eastern Brazil, capital of the state of Rio Grande do Norte; population 774,230 (2007)