Southern Africa
Lesotho
Maseru District

Maseru

Maseru is the capital of and largest city in and is very close to the north western border with South Africa. Although there isn't a huge deal to see in Maseru, it is well worth stopping here upon entry into Lesotho to stock up before venturing further in.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Our Lady of Victories Cathedral and Setsoto Stadium.

Church
Photo: Vanbasten 23, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The also known as the Cathedral of Maseru, is a Catholic Church located in the city of Maseru, . The construction of the church was completed in 1955 by a South African architect Eduard Hebertus Antonio Payens.

Stadium
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The is a multi-purpose stadium in Maseru, . It is currently used mostly for football matches. The stadium has a capacity of 13,900.

Aerodrome
is a military in Maseru, the capital city of . It served as Maseru's main airport until the opening of , located in the town of , about 18 km southeast of downtown Maseru.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stadium Area and Qoaling.

Suburb
is a constituency and community council within the Maseru Municipality, in the of . The population in 2006 was 21,906.

Village
is a constituency and community council in the Maseru Municipality located in the of . The population in 2006 was 33,989.

Suburb
is a constituency and community council in the Maseru Municipality located in the of . The population in 2006 was 24,714.

Maseru

Latitude
-29.3101° or 29° 18′ 36″ south
Longitude
27.4782° or 27° 28′ 42″ east
Population
228,000
Elevation
1,552 metres (5,092 feet)
IATA airport code
MSU
United Nations Location Code
LS MSU
Open location code
5G29MFQH+X7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 30656833
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
932505
Wiki­data ID
Q3909
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Maseru” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Maseru”
  • Albanian: “Maseru”
  • Amharic: “መሴሩ”
  • Arabic: “ماسيرو”
  • Aragonese: “Maseru”
  • Armenian: “Մասերու”
  • Asturian: “Maseru”
  • Azerbaijani: “Maseru”
  • Balinese: “Maseru”
  • Basque: “Maseru”
  • Bavarian: “Maseru”
  • Belarusian: “Масеру”
  • Belarusian: “Масэру”
  • Bengali: “মাসেরু”
  • Bosnian: “Maseru”
  • Breton: “Maseru”
  • Bulgarian: “Масеру”
  • Catalan: “Maseru”
  • Cebuano: “Maseru (ulohang dakbayan)”
  • Cebuano: “Maseru”
  • Central Bikol: “Maseru”
  • Central Kurdish: “ماسێرو”
  • Chechen: “Масеру”
  • Chinese: “Maseru”
  • Chinese: “馬些盧”
  • Chinese: “馬塞盧”
  • Chinese: “馬賽魯”
  • Chinese: “马塞卢”
  • Cornish: “Maseru”
  • Croatian: “Maseru”
  • Czech: “Maseru”
  • Danish: “Maseru”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Maseru”
  • Dutch: “Maseru”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماسيرو”
  • Esperanto: “Maseruo”
  • Estonian: “Maseru”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Maseru”
  • Finnish: “Maseru”
  • French: “Maseru”
  • Galician: “Maseru”
  • Georgian: “მასერუ”
  • German: “Maseru”
  • Greek: “Μαζέρου”
  • Greek: “Μασερού”
  • Guarani: “Maseru”
  • Gujarati: “માસેરુ”
  • Haitian: “Maserou”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Maseru”
  • Hausa: “Maseru”
  • Hebrew: “מסרו”
  • Hindi: “मसेरू”
  • Hindi: “मासेरु”
  • Hindi: “मासेरू”
  • Hungarian: “Maseru”
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  • Ido: “Maseru”
  • Inari Sami: “Maseru”
  • Indonesian: “Maseru”
  • Interlingua: “Maseru”
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  • Irish: “Maseru”
  • Italian: “Masero”
  • Italian: “Maseru”
  • Japanese: “マセル”
  • Javanese: “Maseru”
  • Kabyle: “Maseru”
  • Kannada: “ಮಸೆರು”
  • Kannada: “ಮಸೇರು”
  • Kazakh: “Масеру”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Maseru”
  • Kirghiz: “Масеру”
  • Kongo: “Maseru”
  • Korean: “마세루”
  • Kotava: “Maseru”
  • Kurdish: “Maserû”
  • Latin: “Maseru”
  • Latvian: “Maseru”
  • Ligurian: “Maseru”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Maseru”
  • Lithuanian: “Maseru”
  • Livvi: “Maseru”
  • Lombard: “Maseru”
  • Low German: “Maseru”
  • Luxembourgish: “Maseru”
  • Macedonian: “Масеру”
  • Malagasy: “Maseru”
  • Malay: “Maseru”
  • Malayalam: “മസെരു”
  • Marathi: “मासेरू”
  • Mazanderani: “ماسرو”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Maseru”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Maseru”
  • Minangkabau: “Maseru”
  • Mingrelian: “მასერუ”
  • Moksha: “Масэру”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ماسيرو”
  • Nauru: “Maseru”
  • Northern Frisian: “Maseru”
  • Northern Sami: “Maseru”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Maseru”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Maseru”
  • Norwegian: “Maseru”
  • Novial: “Maseru”
  • Nyanja: “Maseru”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Maseru”
  • Ossetian: “Масеру”
  • Panjabi: “ਮਸੇਰੂ”
  • Papiamento: “Maseru”
  • Persian: “ماسرو”
  • Piemontese: “Maseru”
  • Polish: “Maseru”
  • Portuguese: “Maseru”
  • Pushto: “ماسرو”
  • Quechua: “Maseru”
  • Romanian: “Maseru”
  • Russian: “Масеру”
  • Sardinian: “Maseru”
  • Scots: “Maseru”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Maseru”
  • Serbian: “Масеру”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Maseru”
  • Shona: “Maseru”
  • Sinhala: “මසේරු”
  • Skolt Sami: “Maseru”
  • Slovak: “Maseru”
  • Slovenian: “Maseru”
  • Somali: “Maseru”
  • Southern Dagaare: “Maseru”
  • Southern Sotho: “Maseru”
  • Spanish: “Maseru”
  • Swahili: “Maseru”
  • Swedish: “Maseru (huvudstaden)”
  • Swedish: “Maseru”
  • Tagalog: “Maseru”
  • Tajik: “Масеру”
  • Talysh: “Maseru”
  • Tamil: “மசேரு”
  • Telugu: “మాసెరు”
  • Thai: “มาเซรู”
  • Tibetan: “མ་སི་རུ།”
  • Tswana: “Maseru”
  • Turkish: “Maseru”
  • Udmurt: “Масеру”
  • Ukrainian: “Масеру”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Maseru”
  • Urdu: “ماسیرو”
  • Uzbek: “Maseru”
  • Venetian: “Maseru”
  • Veps: “Maseru”
  • Vietnamese: “Maseru”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Maseru”
  • Welsh: “Maseru”
  • Western Frisian: “Maseru”
  • Western Panjabi: “ماسیرو”
  • Wu Chinese: “马塞卢”
  • Yiddish: “מאסערו”
  • Yoruba: “Maseru”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬些盧”
  • Yue Chinese: “馬塞盧”
  • Zulu: “Maseru, Idolobha”
  • “Maseru”

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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 “Maseru”. Photo: Netroamer, CC BY 3.0.