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Last Minute Tips Before you Travel to Lesotho
- Time Zone: GMT/UTC +2
- Electricity: 220V, 50 Hz (bring an adapter/transformer for your hair drier, laptop, cellullar phone etc.)
- Currency: Maloti (L)
- Country Dialing Code: 266
Lesotho
Location
Southern Africa, an enclave of South Africa
Capital
Maseru
Population
1,867,035
note: estimates for this country explicitly take into account the effects of excess mortality due to AIDS; this can result in lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and death rates, lower population and growth rates, and changes in the distribution of population by age and sex than would otherwise be expected (July 2005 est.)
Regions
10 districts; Berea, Butha-Buthe, Leribe, Mafeteng, Maseru, Mohale's Hoek, Mokhotlong, Qacha's Nek, Quthing, Thaba-Tseka
Climate
temperate; cool to cold, dry winters; hot, wet summers
Ethnic groups
Sotho 99.7%, Europeans, Asians, and other 0.3%,
Religions
Christian 80%, indigenous beliefs 20%
Languages
Sesotho (southern Sotho), English (official), Zulu, Xhosa
Government type
parliamentary constitutional monarchy
Background
Basutoland was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho upon independence from the UK in 1966. King MOSHOESHOE was exiled in 1990, but returned to Lesotho in 1992 and reinstated in 1995. Constitutional government was restored in 1993 after 23 years of military rule. In 1998, violent protests and a military mutiny following a contentious election prompted a brief but bloody intervention by South African and Botswanan military forces under the aegis of the Southern African Development Community. Constitutional reforms have since restored political stability; peaceful parliamentary elections were held in 2002.
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