Lesotho
Lesotho is a small country totally surrounded by South Africa. It's known as the Kingdom in the Sky because the entire country is at a high altitude. Its lowest point is 1,388 m above sea level; no other country in the world has its lowest point above 1,000 m m.Tap on the map to travel |
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Popular Destinations
Maseru
Maseru is the capital of and largest city in Lesotho and is very close to the north western border with South Africa.Teyateyaneng
Teyateyaneng is a town near Lesotho's north-western border.Mafeteng
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Mafeteng is a city in Lesotho, and the Camptown of the district of Mafeteng.
Destinations
Hlotse
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Leribe is in the north of Lesotho. Established in the 19th century by a British missionary, this town on the banks of the Hlotse river was one of the main centres in colonial days.
Thaba-Tseka
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Thaba-Tseka is a constituency and the capital city or camptown of the Thaba-Tseka District in Lesotho.
Mokhotlong
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Mokhotlong is a constituency, city and seat of Mokhotlong District in the mountainous northeastern part of Lesotho.
Quthing
Quthing is the southernmost district of Lesotho. The biggest town in the district is called Moyeni.Sehlabathebe National Park
Sehlabathebe National Park is in Lesotho. Together with several national parks in South Africa it forms the UNESCO World Heritage site "Maloti Drakensberg Tranboundary World Heritage Site".Mohale's Hoek
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Mohale's Hoek is the capital city of Mohale's Hoek District in Lesotho.
Maloti Drakensberg Park
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Maloti Drakensberg Park is located along South Africa’s border with the mountain Kingdom of Lesotho.
Thaba Bosiu
Thaba Bosiu is the mountain stronghold from where King Moshoeshoe I established and ruled over the Kingdom of Lesotho in the 19th century, fighting off wave after wave of attacks by white settlers and hostile African armies.Ts'ehlanyane National Park
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Ts'ehlanyane National Park is a National Park in Lesotho.
Morija
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Morija is a tiny town in north western Lesotho, about 40 miles south of Maseru.
Semonkong
Semonkong is a small town in central Lesotho. In Sesotho, Semonkong literally means Place of Smoke, which is a reference to the huge 200m Maletsunyane Falls which is close to the town.Lesotho
- Type: Country with 2,070,000 residents
- Description: sovereign state in southern Africa
- Languages: English, Southern Sotho, Zulu and Xhosa
- Neighbors: South Africa
- Categories: sovereign state, enclave, landlocked country, kingdom and locality
- Location: Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude of centre
-29.602° or 29° 36' 7" southLongitude of centre
28.229° or 28° 13' 44" eastPopulation
2,070,000Area
30,355 km² (11,720 miles²)Elevation
2,468 metres (8,097 feet)Capital
MaseruCurrency
Loti (LSL)Phone code
.lsInternet domain
266OpenStreetMap ID
node 3491215388OpenStreetMap Feature
place=countryGeoNames ID
932692Wikidata ID
Q1013Lesotho Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Abkhazian: Лесото
- Abkhazian: Лесото Акралра
- Achinese: Lesotho
- Afar: Lesoto
- Afrikaans: Lesotho
- Akan: Kingdom of Lesotho
- Akan: LES
- Akan: Lesotho
- Akan: Lɛsutu
- Akan: ls
- Albanian: Lesoto
- Amharic: Lesotho
- Amharic: ሌሶቶ
- Amis: Lesotho
- Angika: लेसोथो
- Arabic: Lesoto
- Arabic: ليسوتو
- Arabic: مملكة ليسوتو
- Aragonese: Lesoto
- Armenian: Լեսոթո
- Armenian: Լեսոտո
- Arpitan: Lesothô
- Assamese: লেছ’থ’
- Asturian: Lesothu
- Avaric: Lesotoa
- Azerbaijani: Lesoto
- Balinese: Lesotho
- Bambara: Lesoto
- Banjar: Lesotho
- Bashkir: Лесото
- Basque: Lesotho
- Bavarian: Lesotho
- Belarusian: Лесота
- Bengali: লেসোথো
- Bhojpuri: लिसोथो
- Bishnupriya: লেসাথো
- Bislama: Lesoto
- Bosnian: Lesoto
- Breton: Lesotho
- Bulgarian: Лесото
- Burmese: လီဆိုသို
- Burmese: လီဆိုသိုနိုင်ငံ
- Catalan: Lesotho
- Cebuano: Lesotho
- Central Bikol: Lesoto
- Central Kurdish: لیسۆتۆ
- Chavacano: Lesotho
- Chechen: Лесото
- Chinese: Lesotho
- Chinese: 莱索托 / 賴索托
- Chinese: 莱索托
- Chinese: 萊索托
- Chinese: 賴索托
- Chuvash: Лесото
- Cornish: Lesotho
- Corsican: Lezotu
- Crimean Tatar: Lesoto
- Croatian: Lesoto
- Czech: Lesotho
- Dagbani: Lesotho
- Danish: Lesotho
- Dhivehi: ލެސޯތޯ
- Dimli (individual language): Lesotho
- Dotyali: लेसोथो
- Dutch: LS
- Dutch: LSO
- Dutch: Lesotho
- Dzongkha: ལཻ་སོ་ཐོ
- Eastern Mari: Лесото
- Egyptian Arabic: ليسوتو
- English: Kingdom of Lesotho
- English: LES
- English: ls
- Esperanto: LS
- Esperanto: Lesoto
- Esperanto: Reĝlando Lesoto
- Estonian: Lesotho
- Estonian: Lesotho Kuningriik
- Ewe: Kingdom of Lesotho
- Ewe: LES
- Ewe: Lesotho
- Ewe: Lezoto
- Ewe: Lɛsoto nutome
- Ewe: ls
- Extremaduran: Lesotu
- Farefare: Lesotho
- Faroese: Lesoto
- Fiji Hindi: Lesotho
- Finnish: Lesotho
- Finnish: Lesothon kuningaskunta
- French: LS
- French: Lesotho
- French: le Royaume du Lesotho
- Fulah: Lesoto
- Gagauz: Lesoto
- Galician: Lesotho
- Galician: Lesoto
- Ganda: Lesoso
- Ganda: Lesotho
- Georgian: ლესოთო
- Georgian: ლესოტო
- German: Lesotho
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Kingdom of Lesotho
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: Lesotho
- Greek: Βασίλειο του Λεσότο
- Greek: Λεσόθο
- Greek: Λεσότο
- Guarani: Lesóto
- Guianese Creole French: Lésoto
- Gujarati: લેસોથો
- Haitian: Lezoto
- Hakka Chinese: Lesotho
- Hausa: Kingdom of Lesotho
- Hausa: Lesotho
- Hausa: Lesoto
- Hebrew: לסוטו
- Hebrew: לסותו
- Hindi: लेसोथो
- Hungarian: Lesotho
- Hungarian: Lesothói Királyság
- Icelandic: Lesótó
- Ido: Lesotho
- Ido: Lesoto
- Igbo: Lesotho
- Iloko: Lesotho
- Iloko: Lesoto
- Inari Sami: Lesotho
- Inari Sami: Lesotho kunâgâskodde
- Indonesian: Lesotho
- Interlingua: Lesotho
- Interlingue: Lesotho
- Irish: Leosóta
- Italian: Basotholand
- Italian: Lesotho
- Italian: Regno del Lesotho
- Jamaican Creole English: Lesuoto
- Japanese: レソト
- Japanese: レソト王国
- Javanese: Lésotho
- Kabiyè: Lezoto
- Kalaallisut: Lesotho
- Kalmyk: Лесотин Нутг
- Kannada: ಲೆಸೊಥೊ
- Kara-Kalpak: Lesoto
- Kashmiri: لیسوتھو
- Kazakh: Лесото
- Khmer: ឡេសូតូ
- Kikuyu: Lesotho
- Kikuyu: Lesoto
- Kinyarwanda: Lesoto
- Kirghiz: Лесото
- Kongo: Lesotho
- Korean: 레소토
- Kotava: Lesotoa
- Kurdish: Lesoto
- Kurdish: لەسۆتۆ
- Kölsch: Lesotho
- Ladin: Lesotho
- Ladino: Lesotho
- Lao: Lesotho
- Lao: ເລໂຊໂທ
- Latin: Lesothum
- Latvian: Lesoto
- Ligurian: Lesòthò
- Limburgan: Lesotho
- Lingala: Lesoto
- Lingua Franca Nova: Lesoto
- Literary Chinese: 賴索托
- Lithuanian: Lesotas
- Livvi: Lesoto
- Lombard: Lesotho
- Low German: Köäningryk Lesoto
- Low German: Lesotho
- Low German: Lesoto
- Lower Sorbian: Lesotho
- Luba-Katanga: Lesoto
- Luxembourgish: Lesotho
- Macedonian: Лесото
- Macedonian: Лешото
- Malagasy: Lesotho
- Malagasy: Lesoto
- Malagasy: Lezôtô
- Malay: Lesotho
- Malayalam: ലെസോതോ
- Malayalam: ലെസോത്തോ
- Maltese: Lesoto
- Maltese: Renju tal-Lesoto
- Maltese: il-Lesoto
- Manipuri: ꯂꯦꯁꯣꯊꯣ
- Manx: Lesoto
- Maori: Teroto
- Marathi: लेसोथो
- Mazanderani: لسوتو
- Min Dong Chinese: Lesotho
- Min Nan Chinese: Lesotho
- Minangkabau: Lesotho
- Mingrelian: ლესოთო
- Moksha: Лэсото
- Mongolian: Лесото
- Mongolian: ꯂꯦꯁꯣꯊꯣ
- Moroccan Arabic: ليسوطو
- Moroccan Arabic: ليصوطو
- N'Ko: ߟߌߛߕߏ߫
- Nauru: Resoto
- Navajo: Dziłkʼi Naakaii Łizhiní Bikéyah
- Navajo: Sotho Dineʼé Bikéyah
- Nepali: लेसोथो
- Newari: लेसोथो
- North Ndebele: Lesotho
- Northern Frisian: Lesotho
- Northern Luri: لسوتو
- Northern Sami: Lesotho
- Northern Sami: Lesotho gonagasriika
- Norwegian: Lesotho
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kongedømmet Lesotho
- Norwegian Bokmål: Lesotho
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Lesotho
- Novial: Lesutu
- Occitan (post 1500): Lesotho
- Occitan (post 1500): Lesoto
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Lesotho
- Oriya: ଲେସୋଥୋ
- Oromo: Leesoottoo
- Ossetian: Лесото
- Pali: लेसोथो
- Pampanga: Lesotho
- Panjabi: ਲਿਸੋਥੋ
- Panjabi: ਲੇਸੋਥੋ
- Papiamento: Lesotho
- Pedi: Lesotho
- Persian: لسوتو
- Piemontese: Lesotho
- Piemontese: Lesòto
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: Lesotho
- Polish: Lesotho
- Polish: Lesoto
- Portuguese: Lesoto
- Pushto: لسوتو
- Quechua: Lesoto
- Quechua: Suthusuyu
- Romanian: Lesotho
- Romansh: Lesotho
- Rundi: Lesoto
- Russia Buriat: Лесото
- Russian: Королевство Лесото
- Russian: Лесото
- Sakizaya: Lesotho
- Samogitian: Lesuots
- Sango: Lesôtho
- Sanskrit: लेसोथो
- Santali: ᱞᱮᱥᱳᱛᱷᱳ
- Sardinian: Lesotho
- Saterfriesisch: Lesoto
- Scots: Lesotho
- Scottish Gaelic: Leasoto
- Serbian: Lesoto
- Serbian: Лесото
- Serbo-Croatian: Lesotho
- Serbo-Croatian: Lesoto
- Shan: မိူင်းလႄႇသူဝ်းတူဝ်ႇ
- Shona: Lesotho
- Shona: Vusutu
- Sicilian: Lesothu
- Silesian: Lesotho
- Sindhi: ليسوٿو
- Sinhala: ලෙසතෝ
- Sinhala: ලෙසෝතෝ
- Skolt Sami: Lesotho
- Skolt Sami: Lesotho koonǥõskåʹdd
- Slovak: Lesotho
- Slovak: Lesothské kráľovstvo
- Slovenian: Lesoto
- Somali: Lesotho
- Somali: Losooto
- South Azerbaijani: لسوتو
- Southern Sotho: Lesotho
- Southern Sotho: Mmuso wa Lesotho
- Spanish: Lesotho
- Spanish: Lesoto
- Spanish: Reino de Lesoto
- Sundanese: Lésotho
- Swahili: Lesotho
- Swahili: Lesoto
- Swati: ÉLusûtfu
- Swedish: Konungariket Lesotho
- Swedish: Lesotho
- Swiss German: Lesotho
- Tagalog: Lesotho
- Tagalog: Lesoto
- Tajik: Лесото
- Talysh: Lesoto
- Tamil: லெசோதோ
- Tamil: லெசோத்தோ
- Taroko: Lesotho
- Tatar: Лесото
- Telugu: లెసోతో
- Thai: ประเทศเลโซโท
- Thai: เลโซโท
- Tibetan: ལི་སོ་ཐོ།
- Tibetan: ལེ་སོ་ཐོ།
- Tigrinya: ሌሶቶ
- Tok Pisin: Lesoto
- Tonga (Tonga Islands): Lesoto
- Tosk Albanian: Lesotho
- Tsonga: Lesotho
- Tswana: Lesotho
- Tumbuka: Lesotho
- Tunisian Arabic: ليسوتو
- Turkish: Lesotho
- Turkish: Lesoto
- Turkmen: Lesoto
- Udmurt: Лесото
- Uighur: لېسوتو
- Ukrainian: Королівство Лесото
- Ukrainian: Лесото
- Upper Sorbian: Lesotho
- Urdu: لیسوتھو
- Uzbek: Lesoto
- Venda: Li-Sotho
- Venetian: Lesotho
- Venetian: Łesotho
- Veps: Lesoto
- Vietnamese: Lesotho
- Vietnamese: Lê-xô-thô (Lesotho)
- Vietnamese: Lê-xô-thô
- Vlax Romani: Lesotho
- Volapük: Sutuvän
- Võro: Lesotho
- Waray (Philippines): Lesoto
- Welsh: Lesotho
- Western Frisian: Lesotho
- Western Frisian: Lesoto
- Western Panjabi: لیسوتھو
- Wolof: Lesoto
- Wu Chinese: 萊索托
- Xhosa: ELuSuthu
- Yakut: Лесото
- Yiddish: לעסאטא
- Yiddish: קעניגרייך פון לעסאטא
- Yoruba: Lesoto
- Yoruba: Lèsóthò
- Yue Chinese: 萊索托
- Zeeuws: Lesotho
- Zhuang: Lesotho
- Zulu: OSotho
- Zulu: iLesotho
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