Lesotho

Lesotho is a small landlocked country entirely surrounded by . It is known as the "Kingdom in the Sky" because the entire country is at a high altitude.
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is the capital of and largest city in Lesotho…
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is a town near Lesotho's north-western border.
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is a city in Lesotho, and the Camptown of the district of .

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is a constituency and the capital city…
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is in the north of Lesotho.
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is a constituency, city and seat…
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is in Lesotho.
is the southernmost district of Lesotho.
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Mohale's Hoek is a town in southern Lesotho.
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is the mountain stronghold from where King…
is a small town in central Lesotho.
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Ts'ehlanyane National Park is a National Park in Lesotho.
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is a tiny town in north western Lesotho, about 40 miles south of .

Lesotho

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Latitude of center
-29.602° or 29° 36′ 7″ south
Longitude of center
28.229° or 28° 13′ 44″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3491215388
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
932692
Wiki­data ID
Q1013

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Lesotho” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Лесото Акралра”
  • Abkhazian: “Лесото”
  • Achinese: “Lesotho”
  • Afrikaans: “Lesotho”
  • Akan: “Lɛsutu”
  • Albanian: “Lesoto”
  • Amharic: “ሌሶቶ”
  • Amis: “Lesotho”
  • Angika: “लेसोथो”
  • Arabic: “ليسوتو”
  • Arabic: “مملكة ليسوتو”
  • Aragonese: “Lesoto”
  • Armenian: “Լեսոթո”
  • Armenian: “Լեսոտո”
  • Arpitan: “Lesothô”
  • Assamese: “লেছ’থ’”
  • Asturian: “Lesothu”
  • Atayal: “Lesotho”
  • Azerbaijani: “Lesoto”
  • Balinese: “Lesotho”
  • Bambara: “Lesoto”
  • Banjar: “Lesotho”
  • Bashkir: “Лесото”
  • Basque: “Lesotho”
  • Bavarian: “Lesotho”
  • Belarusian: “Лесота”
  • Bengali: “লেসেথো”
  • Bengali: “লেসোথো”
  • Betawi: “Lésoto”
  • Bhojpuri: “लिसोथो”
  • Bishnupriya: “লেসাথো”
  • Bislama: “Lesoto”
  • Bosnian: “Lesoto”
  • Breton: “Lesotho”
  • Bulgarian: “Лесото”
  • Burmese: “လီဆိုသို”
  • Burmese: “လီဆိုသိုနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Lesotho”
  • Catalan: “Regne de Lesotho”
  • Cebuano: “Lesotho”
  • Central Bikol: “Lesoto”
  • Central Kurdish: “لیسۆتۆ”
  • Chavacano: “Lesotho”
  • Chavacano: “Lesoto”
  • Chechen: “Лесото”
  • Chinese: “莱索托 / 賴索托”
  • Chinese: “莱索托”
  • Chinese: “莱索托王国”
  • 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”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lesoto”
  • Dotyali: “लेसोथो”
  • Dutch: “Koninkrijk Lesotho”
  • Dutch: “Lesotho”
  • Dutch: “LS”
  • Dutch: “LSO”
  • Dzongkha: “ལེ་སོ་ཐོ། Lesotho”
  • Dzongkha: “ལེ་སོ་ཐོ།”
  • Dzongkha: “ལཻ་སོ་ཐོ”
  • Eastern Mari: “Лесото”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ليسوتو”
  • Esperanto: “Lesoto”
  • Esperanto: “LS”
  • Esperanto: “Reĝlando Lesoto”
  • Estonian: “Lesotho Kuningriik”
  • Estonian: “Lesotho”
  • 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”
  • Fon: “Lesothotò”
  • French: “le Royaume du Lesotho”
  • French: “Lesotho”
  • French: “LS”
  • Fulah: “Lesoto”
  • Gagauz: “Lesoto”
  • Galician: “Lesotho”
  • Galician: “Lesoto”
  • Galician: “Reino de Lesotho”
  • Ganda: “Lesoso”
  • Ganda: “Lesotho”
  • Georgian: “ლესოთო”
  • Georgian: “ლესოტო”
  • German: “Lesotho”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kingdom of Lesotho”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Lesotho”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “The Mountain Kingdom”
  • Gilaki: “لسؤتؤ”
  • 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”
  • Hausa: “The Mountain Kingdom”
  • Hebrew: “לסוטו”
  • Hebrew: “לסותו”
  • Hindi: “लिसूतू”
  • Hindi: “लेसोथो”
  • Hungarian: “Lesotho”
  • Hungarian: “Lesothói Királyság”
  • Icelandic: “Lesótó”
  • Ido: “Lesotho”
  • Ido: “Lesoto”
  • Igbo: “Lesotho”
  • Iloko: “Lesotho”
  • Iloko: “Lesoto”
  • Inari Sami: “Lesotho kunâgâskodde”
  • Inari Sami: “Lesotho”
  • 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: “Lesoto”
  • Kabiyè: “Lezoto”
  • Kabyle: “Lesoto”
  • Kabyle: “Lesutu”
  • Kabyle: “Lisutu”
  • Kalaallisut: “Lesotho”
  • Kalmyk: “Лесотин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಲೆಸೊಥೊ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Lesoto”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Лесото”
  • Kashmiri: “لِسوٗٹوٗ”
  • Kashmiri: “لیسوتھو”
  • Kazakh: “Лесото”
  • Khmer: “ឡេសូតូ”
  • Kikuyu: “Lesotho”
  • Kikuyu: “Lesoto”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Lesoto”
  • Kirghiz: “Лесото”
  • Kölsch: “Lesotho”
  • Kongo: “Lesotho”
  • Korean: “레소토”
  • Kotava: “Lesotoa”
  • Kurdish: “Lesoto”
  • Kurdish: “لەسۆتۆ”
  • Ladin: “Lesotho”
  • Ladino: “Lesotho”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເລໂຊໂຕ”
  • 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: “Lesôtô”
  • Malay: “Lesotho”
  • Malayalam: “ലെസോതോ”
  • Malayalam: “ലെസോത്തോ”
  • Maltese: “il-Lesoto”
  • Maltese: “Lesoto”
  • Maltese: “Renju tal-Lesoto”
  • Manipuri: “ꯂꯦꯁꯣꯊꯣ”
  • Manx: “Lesoto”
  • Maori: “Teroto”
  • Marathi: “लेसोथो”
  • Mazanderani: “لسوتو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Lesotho”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Lesotho”
  • Minangkabau: “Lesotho”
  • Mingrelian: “ლესოთო”
  • Moksha: “Лэсота”
  • Moksha: “Лэсото”
  • Mongolian: “Лесото”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليسوطو”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليصوطو”
  • Mossi: “Lesotho”
  • 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 gonagasriika”
  • Northern Sami: “Lesotho”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kongedømmet Lesotho”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lesotho”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lesotho”
  • Norwegian: “Lesotho”
  • Novial: “Lesutu”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Lesotho”
  • Obolo: “Lesoto”
  • 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”
  • Portuguese: “Lesoto”
  • Pushto: “لسوتو”
  • Pushto: “لېسوتو”
  • 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: “Lesoto”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းလႄႇသူဝ်းတူဝ်ႇ”
  • Shona: “Lesotho”
  • Shona: “Vusutu”
  • Sicilian: “Lesothu”
  • Silesian: “Lesotho”
  • Sindhi: “ليسوٿو”
  • Sinhala: “ලෙසතෝ”
  • Sinhala: “ලෙසොතෝව”
  • Sinhala: “ලෙසෝතෝ”
  • Skolt Sami: “Lesotho koonǥõskåʹdd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Lesotho”
  • Slovak: “Lesotho”
  • Slovak: “Lesothské kráľovstvo”
  • Slovenian: “Lesoto”
  • Somali: “Lesotho”
  • Somali: “Losooto”
  • South Azerbaijani: “لسوتو”
  • South Ndebele: “Lesotho”
  • Southern Sotho: “Lesotho”
  • Southern Sotho: “Mmuso wa Lesotho”
  • Spanish: “Lesotho”
  • Spanish: “Lesoto”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Lesotho”
  • Spanish: “Reino de Lesoto”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵍⵉⵙⵓⵟⵓ”
  • Sundanese: “Lésotho”
  • Swahili: “Lesotho”
  • Swahili: “Lesoto”
  • Swati: “ÉLusûtfu”
  • Swati: “LeSotho”
  • 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”
  • Tsonga: “Lesotho”
  • Tswana: “Lesotho”
  • Tumbuka: “Lesotho”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “ليسوتو”
  • Turkish: “Lesotho Krallığı”
  • Turkish: “Lesotho”
  • Turkish: “Lesoto”
  • Turkmen: “Lesoto”
  • Tyap: “Lesoto”
  • Udmurt: “Лесото”
  • Uighur: “لېسوتو”
  • Ukrainian: “Королівство Лесото”
  • Ukrainian: “Лесото”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Lesotho”
  • Urdu: “لیسوتھو”
  • Uzbek: “Lesoto”
  • Venda: “Li-Sotho”
  • Venetian: “Lesotho”
  • Venetian: “Łesotho”
  • Venetian: “Lezoto”
  • Veps: “Lesoto”
  • Vietnamese: “Lê-xô-thô (Lesotho)”
  • Vietnamese: “Lê-xô-thô”
  • Vietnamese: “Lesotho”
  • Vietnamese: “Vương quốc Lesotho”
  • 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: “Lèsóthò”
  • Yoruba: “Lesoto”
  • Yue Chinese: “萊索托”
  • Zeeuws: “Lesotho”
  • Zhuang: “Lesotho”
  • Zulu: “iLesotho”
  • Zulu: “OSotho”
  • “ma Lesoto”
  • “ma Sutu”

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