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Lesotho

Kinrick o Lesotho

Muso oa Lesotho
Banner o Lesotho
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Motto: "Khotso, Pula, Nala" (Sotho)
"Peace, Rain, Prosperity"
Anthem: Lesotho Fatse La Bontata Rona
Lesotho, land o oor Faithers
Location o  Lesotho  (dark blue) – in Africa  (light blue & dark grey) – in the African Union  (light blue)
Location o  Lesotho  (dark blue)

– in Africa  (light blue & dark grey)
– in the African Union  (light blue)

Caipital
and largest city
Maseru
29°28′S 27°56′E / 29.467°S 27.933°E / -29.467; 27.933
Offeecial leids
Ethnic groups
  • 99.7% Sotho
  • 0.3% ither Africans
Demonym(s)
GovrenmentUnitary pairlamentary constitutional monarchy
• Keeng
Letsie III
Moeketsi Majoro
LegislaturPairlament
Senate
Naitional Assembly
Unthirldom
• frae the Unitit Kinrick
4 October 1966
Aurie
• Total
30,355 km2 (11,720 sq mi) (140t)
• Water (%)
negligible
Population
• 2009 estimate
2,067,000[1] (144t)
• 2004 census
2,031,348
• Density
68.1/km2 (176.4/sq mi) (138t)
GDP (PPP)2013 estimate
• Total
$4.277 billion[2]
• Per capita
$2,244[2]
GDP (nominal)2013 estimate
• Tot
$2.616 billion[2]
• Per capita
$1,372[2]
Gini (2003)52.5[3]
heich
HDIIncrease 0.461[4]
law · 158t
CurrencyLesotho loti (LSL)
Time zoneUTC+2 (SAST)
Drivin sideleft
Cawin code+266
ISO 3166 codeLS
Internet TLD.ls
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Lesotho (Listeni/lᵻˈsuːtuː/ li-SOO-too), offeecially the Kinrick o Lesotho, is a landlocked kintra an enclave, completely surroondit bi its anly neighbourin kintra, Sooth Africae. It is juist ower 30,000 km2 (11,583 sq mi) in size an haes a population slichtly ower twa million.[1] Its caipital an lairgest ceety is Maseru. Lesotho is a member o the Commonweel o Naitions. The name Lesotho translates roughly intae the land o the fowk who speak Sesotho.[5] Aboot 40% o the population live alaw the internaitional poverty line o US $1.25 a day.[6]

  1. ↑ a b Department of Economic and Social Affairs Population Division (2009). "World Population Prospects, Table A.1" (PDF). 2008 revision. United Nations. Retrieved 12 Mairch 2009. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ↑ a b c d "Lesotho". International Monetary Fund. Retrieved 17 Apryle 2013.
  3. ↑ "GINI index". World Bank. Retrieved 26 Julie 2013.
  4. ↑ "The 2013 Human Development Report – "The Rise of the South: Human Progress in a Diverse World"". HDRO (Human Development Report Office) United Nations Development Programme. pp. 144–147. Archived frae the original on 26 December 2018. Retrieved 28 November 2013.
  5. ↑ Itano, Nicole (2007). No Place Left to Bury the Dead. Simon and Schuster. p. 314. ISBN 0-7432-7095-9.
  6. ↑ Human Development Indices, Table 3: Human and income poverty, p. 35. Retrieved on 1 June 2009

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