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Lesotho (nation) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 29 30 00 S degrees minutes |
Lat: -29.5000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 028 15 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 28.2500 decimal degrees |
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Note: Enclave located within borders of South Africa; originally inhabited by bushmen; Bantu people arrived 16th century; area disputed in 19th century by Boers and British; under British control until independence; part of Cape Colony 1871-1884; official languages are English and Sotho, though Zulu and Xhosa are also spoken. |
Names: |
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| Lesotho (preferred,C,V,English-P,U,N)
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| Lesotho (Sotho, Southern-P,U,N)
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| Lesotho (Malagasy)
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| Lesotho (Vietnamese)
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| Lesotho (Indonesian)
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| Lesotho (Magyar (Hungarian))
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| Lesotho (Danish)
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| Lesotho (Norwegian (Nynorsk))
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| Lesotho (Finnish)
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| Lesotho (Swedish)
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| Lesotho (Polish)
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| Lesotho (Romanian)
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| Lesotho (Slovak)
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| Lesotho (Spanish-P,U,N)
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| Lesotho (Catalan)
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| Lesotho (Basque)
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| Lesotho (Welsh)
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| Lesotho (German)
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| Lesotho (Low German)
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| Lesotho (Breton)
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| Lesotho (Cornish)
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| Lesotho (Czech)
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| Lesotho (Dutch)
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| Lesotho (Afrikaans)
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| Lesotho (French-P,U,N)
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| Lesotho (Galician)
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| Lesotho (Italian)
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| Lesotho (Estonian)
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| Lesotho (Greenlandic)
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| Lesotho (Turkish)
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| Lesotho (Anglo-Saxon)
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| Lesotho (Occitan)
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| Lesotho (Norwegian (Bokmål))
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| Lesotho (Romansh)
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| Lesotho (Malay (macrolanguage))
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| Lesotho (North Ndebele)
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| Lesotho (Norwegian)
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| Lesotho (Pampanga)
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| Lesotho (Northern Sami)
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| Lesotho (Shona)
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| Lesotho (Swahili (generic))
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| Lesotho (Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association))
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| Kingdom of Lesotho (C,V,O,English,U,N)
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| Royaume du Lesotho (C,O,French,U,N)
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| Reino de Lesotho (C,O,Spanish,U,N)
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| Lesoto (C,O,Rundi)
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| Lesoto (Tagalog)
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| Lesoto (Maltese)
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| Lesoto (Ilocano)
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| Lesoto (Azerbaijani)
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| Lesoto (Bambara)
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| Lesoto (Croatian)
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| Lesoto (Bosnian)
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| Lesoto (Latvian)
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| Lesoto (Lingala)
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| Lesoto (Polish)
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| Lesoto (Portuguese)
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| Lesoto (Slovene)
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| Lesoto (Spanish)
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| Lesoto (Aragonese)
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| Lesoto (Esperanto)
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| Lesoto (Kurdish)
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| Lesoto (Hausa)
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| Lesoto (Albanian)
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| Lesoto (Galician)
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| Lesoto (Faroese)
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| Lesoto (Turkish)
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| Lesoto (Occitan)
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| Lesoto (Fulah)
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| Lesoto (Kikuyu)
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| Lesoto (Luba-Katanga)
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| Lesoto (Swahili (generic))
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| Lesoto (Tonga (Tonga Islands))
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| Lesoto (Ido)
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| Лесото (C,O,Tajik)
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| Лесото (Serbian)
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| Лесото (Macedonian)
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| Лесото (Bulgarian)
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| Лесото (Russian-P,U)
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| Лесото (Ukrainian)
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| Королевство Лесото (C,O,Russian,U)
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| 莱索托 (C,O,Chinese-P,U)
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| 莱索托王国 (C,O,Chinese,U)
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| سًُوثو (C,O,Arabic-P,U)
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| مم ىَة سًُوثو (C,O,Arabic,U)
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| LSO (C,O,ISO3L)
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| LS (C,O,ISO2L)
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| ISO426 (C,O,ISO3N)
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| LT (C,O,FIPS)
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| Basotho (C,O,English,U,A)
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| Basoetoland (C,U)
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| Colony of Basutoland (C,U)
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| i-Lesotho (C,U,Zulu)
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| Leasoto (C,U,Scots Gaelic)
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| Leosóta (C,U,Irish Gaelic)
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| Lesoso (C,U,Ganda (Ugandan language))
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| Lesotas (C,U,Lithuanian)
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| Lesothô (C,U,Arpitan)
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| Lesôtho (C,U,Sangho)
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| Lesothu (C,U,Asturian)
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| Lesothu (Sicilian)
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| Lesothum (C,U,Latin)
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| Lesótó (C,U,Icelandic)
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| Lesòto (C,U,Piemontese)
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| Lesuto (C,U)
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| Lê-xô-thô (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Lê-xô-thô (Lesotho) (C,U,Vietnamese)
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| Losooto (C,U,Somali)
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| Lɛsoto nutome (C,U,Ewe)
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| Lɛsutu (C,U,Akan)
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| Orílẹ́ède Lesoto (C,U,Yoruba)
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| Sutuvän (C,U,Volapük)
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| لېسوتو (C,U,Uyghur)
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| លើសូតូ (C,U,Khmer)
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| லெசோதோ (C,U,Tamil)
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| Лешото (C,U,Macedonian)
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| लेसोथो (C,U,Marathi)
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| लेसोथो (Hindi)
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| लेसोथो (Nepali)
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| ሌሶቶ (C,U,Tigrinya)
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| ሌሶቶ (Amharic)
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| לסותו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| ເລໂຊໂທ (C,U,Lao)
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| レソト (C,U,Japanese)
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| ლესოთო (C,U,Georgian)
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| Λεσόθο (C,U,Greek)
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| ليسوتو (C,U,Arabic)
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| 레소토 (C,U,Korean)
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| לסוטו (C,U,Hebrew )
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| ประเทศเลโซโท (C,U,Thai)
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| เลโซโท (C,U,Thai)
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| ლესოტო (C,U,Georgian)
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| Լեսոտո (C,U,Armenian)
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| Λεσότο (C,U,Greek)
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| لسوتو (C,U,Persian-Farsi)
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| Лесота (C,U,Belarusian)
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| లెసోతో (C,U,Telugu)
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| ଲେସୋଥୋ (C,U,Odia)
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| レソト王国 (C,U,Japanese)
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| لەسۆتۆ (C,U,Kurdish)
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| ಲೆಥೋಸೊ (C,U,Kannada)
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| ലെസോത്തോ (C,U,Malayalam)
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| ལེ་སོ་ཐོ། (C,U,Tibetan)
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| لیسوتھو (C,U,Urdu)
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| লেসোথো (C,U,Bengali)
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| લેસોથો (C,U,Gujarati)
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| Basutoland (H,V)
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............ | 1871-1966 |
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Place Types: |
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| nation (preferred, C) |
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gained independence 1966 |
| primary political unit (C) |
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| independent sovereign nation (C) |
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| kingdom (C) |
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| former territory/colony/dependent state (C) |
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| controlled region (H) |
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British, 1843-1966 |
| colony (H) |
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British, 1884-1966 |
| independent political entity (C) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| capital is .... |
Maseru .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Africa, Lesotho, Maseru district) [1090569] |
| member of .... |
Commonwealth of Nations .......... (association) |
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(World) [7005615] |
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joined association in 1966 |
| member of .... |
United Nations .......... (organization) |
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(World) [7029605] |
| ................ |
joined organization in 1966 |
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