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Lesotho

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Kinrick o Lesotho

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Motto: "Khotso, Pula, Nala" (Sotho)
"Peace, Rain, Prosperity"
AnthemLesotho 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
Estimates for this country explicitly tak intae accoont the effects o excess mortality due tae AIDS; this can result in lawer life expectancy, heicher infant mortality an daith rates, lawer population an growth rates, an chynges in the distribution o population by age an sex nor would itherwise be expectit.

Lesotho (Listeni/lˈst/ 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]

References

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  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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