Southern Africa
Lesotho
Leribe District

Leribe

Leribe is in the north of . 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.
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  • Type: Town with 44,000 residents
  • Description: city
  • Also known as: “Hlotse”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Leribe Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport serving Hlotse, the camptown of the of . The runway is in a large, open field with many cross trails, but does have some side markers along its length.

Leribe

Latitude
-28.871° or 28° 52′ 16″ south
Longitude
28.0432° or 28° 2′ 36″ east
Population
44,000
Elevation
1,645 metres (5,397 feet)
IATA airport code
LRB
United Nations Location Code
LS LRB
Open location code
5G3C42HV+J7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4418230668
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
932698
Wiki­data ID
Q993076
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Satellite Map

Discover Leribe from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Leribe” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hlotse”
  • Asturian: “Hlotse”
  • Belarusian: “Лерыбэ”
  • Belarusian: “Хлёцэ”
  • Belarusian: “Хлоцэ”
  • Cebuano: “Leribe”
  • Chinese: “莱里贝”
  • Chinese: “萊里貝”
  • Dutch: “Hlotse”
  • Finnish: “Hlotse”
  • French: “Hlotse”
  • French: “Leribe”
  • German: “Hlotse”
  • Greek: “Χλότσε”
  • Indonesian: “Hlotse”
  • Italian: “Hlotse”
  • Japanese: “フロツェ”
  • Lithuanian: “Hlocė”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hlotse”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hlotse”
  • Persian: “هلاسته”
  • Polish: “Hlotse”
  • Polish: “Leribe”
  • Portuguese: “Hlotse”
  • Romanian: “Hlotse”
  • Russian: “Лерибе”
  • Russian: “Хлотсе”
  • Russian: “Хлоце”
  • Southern Sotho: “Hlotse”
  • Spanish: “Hlotse”
  • Swahili: “Hlotse”
  • Swedish: “Hlotse”
  • Swedish: “Leribe”
  • Ukrainian: “Хлоце”
  • Urdu: “ہلوتس”
  • Veps: “Hloce”
  • Zulu: “Hlotse”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Leribe”. Photo: Jeff.t.mcdonald, Public domain.