The only country entirely above 1,000 m in elevation, which is why it is called the Kingdom in the Sky.
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Lesotho
Kingdom of Lesotho
Africa
ยท Southern Africa
0Population
30.36Kkmยฒ of land
$1.12KGDP / person
MaseruCapital
- ISO codes
- LS ยท LSO
- Density
- 70 /kmยฒ
- Languages
- English, Sotho
- Currencies
- Lesotho loti (LSL), South African rand (ZAR)
- Dial code
- +266
- Internet domain
- .ls
- Time zones
- 1
- Coastline
- Landlocked
- Map centre
- 29.4800ยฐ S, 28.2470ยฐ E
- Demonym
- Mosotho
- UN region
- Southern Africa
- Economy
- Least developed region
- Income group
- Lower middle income
- Total GDP
- $2.38B
- Sovereignty
- Independent ยท UN member
- Borders
- 1
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By the numbers
How Lesotho stacks up against all 242 mapped countries.
Population
148th
of 242 ยท 0.03% of world population
Land area
141st
of 242 ยท 0.02% of world land
GDP per person
209th
richest of 242 by output per person
Population density
134th
most crowded of 242
Ten facts about Lesotho
The first is hand-written; the rest are worked out from this country's own figures.
Population is about 2,125,268 people, the 148th largest of the 242 countries mapped here - roughly one in 3,612 of everyone alive.
Covers 30,355 kmยฒ, making it the 141st largest country here - about 11.7 times the size of Luxembourg.
Population density is about 70 people per kmยฒ.
The capital is Maseru, at 29.32ยฐ S, 27.48ยฐ E, with a metropolitan population of about 361,324.
Shares land borders with 1 country: South Africa.
Landlocked: every route to the sea crosses at least one border.
Keeps a single time zone, Africa/Maseru.
The currency is the Lesotho loti (LSL, symbol L).
Has 2 official languages: English and Sotho.
Local time
Live, from PHP's IANA database.
Africa/Maseru
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UTC+02:00
Cities
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Maseru
Maseru
29.3167ยฐ S, 27.4833ยฐ E
361.32K
Land neighbours
1 country shares a border with Lesotho.