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Lesotho
Location marker · geographic overview
29.5° S / 28.5° ETHE WORLD, ONE COUNTRY AT A TIME
- Capital
- Maseru
- Population
- 2,337,423 2024
- Area
- 30,355 km² (year unavailable)
- Languages source-listed
- English, Sotho
- Currency
- Lesotho loti (LSL), South African rand (ZAR)
- Geography
- Landlocked
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Sources & limitations.
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FROM THE TRAVEL GUIDE · Lesotho
Lesotho is a small landlocked country entirely surrounded by South Africa. It is known as the "Kingdom in the Sky" because the entire country is at a high altitude. Its lowest point is 1,388 m (4,554 ft) above sea level; no other country in the world has its lowest point above 1,000 m (3,300 ft).
Landscape & landmarks
Semonkong Falls — these falls near Semonkong drop 200 m in single plunge!Read the see section ↗
Excerpts from Wikivoyage contributors, revision 2026-09-23. CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected excerpts; wiki formatting removed; omissions marked […]. Guide wording and any figures belong to this dated source; they do not replace the atlas statistics above. Food descriptions are not official national-dish designations.
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- National flower
- Not yet verified
- Official national dish
- Not yet verified
- Representative food
- Not yet verified
- Subregion
- Southern Africa
- Calling code
- +266
- Internet domain
- .ls
- Land border codes
- ZAF
Quick facts
- Traffic keeps to the left side of the road. Source ↗
- The country-code web domain is .ls. Source ↗
- The source lists monday as the start of the week. Source ↗
Population: World Bank 2024. Other facts: REST Countries snapshot. Source-matched September 26, 2026; not live data. Sources & limitations.