Lesotho
Names and codes: GeoNames, CC BY 4.0 · Boundary: Natural Earth, public domain · Refresh date not recorded · Sources and licenses
Codes and identifiers
- ISO alpha-2
- LS
- ISO alpha-3
- LSO
- ISO numeric
- 426
- FIPS 10-4
- LT
- GeoNames ID
- 932692
Key facts
- Capital
- Maseru
- Area
- 30,355 km²
- Population
- 2,108,132
- Currency
- Loti (LSL)
- Calling code
- +266
- Top-level domain
- .ls
- Official languages
- en-LS,st,zu,xh
Continent
- Name
- Africa
- Code
- AF
- In this dataset
- 58 countries
Location
- Latitude
- -29.5
- Longitude
- 28.25
- Min latitude
- -30.658799335999916
- Min longitude
- 27.002154989000132
- Max latitude
- -28.570761413999975
- Max longitude
- 29.435908244000075
Boundary
The API call behind this page
Request
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
"https://geosearch.dev/v1/countries/LS?fields=iso_code,iso3_code,name,capital,population,area_sq_km,currency_code,continent_code"Response
{
"data": {
"area_sq_km": 30355,
"capital": "Maseru",
"continent_code": "AF",
"currency_code": "LSL",
"iso3_code": "LSO",
"iso_code": "LS",
"name": "Lesotho",
"population": 2108132
}
}Formatted for reading. The API returns the same JSON on one line.
Other endpoints for this country
/v1/countries/LS/regions/v1/cities?country=LS/v1/postal-codes?country=LS/v1/timezones?country=LS
Name in other languages
- Arabic
- ليسوتو
- Chinese
- 莱索托
- English
- Lesotho
- French
- Lesotho
- German
- Lesotho
- Hindi
- लेसोथो
- Italian
- Lesotho
- Japanese
- レソト
- Korean
- 레소토
- Portuguese
- Lesoto
- Russian
- Лесото
- Spanish
- Lesotho
- Total language variants
- 140
The API returns any of them with ?lang=.
Time zones
| IANA ID | UTC offset | DST offset |
|---|---|---|
| Africa/Maseru | UTC+02:00 | UTC+02:00 |
Postal code format
- Format
- ###
- Pattern
^(\d{3})$
First-level administrative regions
- Maseru
- Leribe District
- Butha-Buthe
- Mafeteng District
- Mohale’s Hoek District
- Thaba-Tseka
- Quthing
- Mokhotlong
- Qacha’s Nek
- Berea
10 of 10 shown, largest first
Largest cities
| City | Population |
|---|---|
| Maseru | 359,753 |
| Maputsoe | 61,916 |
| Mohale's Hoek | 46,593 |
| Mafeteng | 45,287 |
| Hlotse | 43,967 |
| Butha-Buthe | 40,599 |
| Mabote | 38,047 |
| Quthing | 33,910 |
| Teyateyaneng | 27,272 |
| Qacha’s Nek | 25,573 |
Coverage in this dataset
- Cities
- 400
- First-level regions
- 10
- Postal codes
- 0
- Name languages
- 140
- Boundary polygon
- Yes
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