Leribe
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.
Photo: Jeff.t.mcdonald, Public domain.- Town with 44,000 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 1,645 metres (5,397 feet)
- …has the IATA airport code LRB
- …is also known as “Hlotse”
- Description: city
Places of Interest
Highlights include Leribe Airport.
Leribe Airport
Aerodrome
Leribe Airport is an airport serving Hlotse, the camptown of the Leribe District of Lesotho.
Leribe
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Latitude
-28.871° or 28° 52′ 16″ south
Longitude
28.0432° or 28° 2′ 36″ east
UN/LOCODE
LS LRB
Open location code
5G3C42HV+J7
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Leribe” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hlotse”
- Amharic: “ህሎትሰ”
- Arabic: “هلوتسي”
- Asturian: “Hlotse”
- Azerbaijani: “Hlotse”
- Belarusian: “Лерыбэ”
- Belarusian: “Хлёцэ”
- Belarusian: “Хлоцэ”
- Bengali: “হ্লোতসে”
- Cebuano: “Leribe”
- Chinese: “莱里贝”
- Chinese: “萊里貝”
- Dutch: “Hlotse”
- Finnish: “Hlotse”
- French: “Hlotse”
- French: “Leribe”
- German: “Hlotse”
- Greek: “Χλότσε”
- Hausa: “Hlotse”
- Hindi: “ह्लोत्से”
- Indonesian: “Hlotse”
- Italian: “Hlotse”
- Japanese: “フロツェ”
- Japanese: “ローツェ”
- Javanese: “Hlotse”
- Kazakh: “Хлотсе”
- Kirghiz: “Хлотсе”
- Lithuanian: “Hlocė”
- Malay: “Hlotse”
- Northern Frisian: “Hlotse”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hlotse”
- Oromo: “Hlotse”
- Panjabi: “ਹ੍ਲੋਤਸੇ”
- Persian: “هلاسته”
- Persian: “هلوتسه”
- Polish: “Hlotse”
- Polish: “Leribe”
- Portuguese: “Hlotse”
- Pushto: “ہلوتسے”
- Romanian: “Hlotse”
- Russian: “Лерибе”
- Russian: “Хлотсе”
- Russian: “Хлоце”
- Somali: “Hlotse”
- Southern Sotho: “Hlotse”
- Spanish: “Hlotse”
- Swahili: “Hlotse”
- Swedish: “Hlotse”
- Swedish: “Leribe”
- Tajik: “Хлотсе”
- Tatar: “Хлотсе”
- Turkish: “Hlotse”
- Ukrainian: “Хлоце”
- Urdu: “ہلوتس”
- Urdu: “ہلوتسے”
- Uzbek: “Hlotse”
- Veps: “Hloce”
- Zulu: “Hlotse”
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