Lesotho
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| Lesotho is part of: |
| Africa · Southern Africa · |
| Water Basins of Lesotho: |
| Orange · |
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| Capital | Maseru | ||||||||||||||
| Neighbouring Countries | South Africa | ||||||||||||||
| Total Area | 30,355 km2 | ||||||||||||||
| - Water | 0 km2 (0.00%) / 0 m2/ha | ||||||||||||||
| - Land | 30,355 km2 | ||||||||||||||
| Coastline | 0 km | ||||||||||||||
| Population | 1,794,769 (59 inhab./km2) | ||||||||||||||
| HDIA | 0.496 (2007) | ||||||||||||||
| Gini CoefficientA | 63.2 (1995) | ||||||||||||||
| Nominal GDPB | $1,652 million | ||||||||||||||
| GDP (PPP) Per CapitaB | $1,600 | ||||||||||||||
| National UN Presence | FAO, UNDP, WHO, UNICEF, WB, UN-Habitat | ||||||||||||||
| Land UseC | |||||||||||||||
| - Cultivated Land | 3,339 km2 (11%) | ||||||||||||||
| - Arable | 3,300 km2 (10.87%) | ||||||||||||||
| - Permanent Crops | 39 km2 (0.13%) | ||||||||||||||
| - Irrigated | 30 km2 | ||||||||||||||
| - Non cultivated | 352,577 km2 (89%) | ||||||||||||||
| Average Annual RainfallD | 788 mm | ||||||||||||||
| Renewable Water ResourcesE | 5.2 km3 | ||||||||||||||
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| References & Remarks | |||||||||||||||
| A UNDP Human Development Report | |||||||||||||||
| B CIA World Factbook and Wikipedia | |||||||||||||||
| C CIA World Factbook Country Profiles | |||||||||||||||
| D Aquastat - FAO's Information System on Water and Agriculture | |||||||||||||||
| E CIA World Factbook | |||||||||||||||
| F Earthtrends | |||||||||||||||
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Articles
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- Lesotho/Maps (97 views) . . WikiBot
- Lesotho/articles (157 views) . . WikiBot
- Lesotho/projects (187 views) . . WikiBot
- Lesotho/publications (153 views) . . WikiBot
- Lesotho/who is who (184 views) . . WikiBot
- Image:OrangeSenquExecSummLowRes.pdf (216 views) . . Juerg.staudenmann
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Projects and Case Studies
- Projects in or about Lesotho
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- Development and adoption of a Strategic Action Program for balancing water uses and sustainable natural resource management in the Orange-Senqu river transboundary basin. (578 views) . . Katy.norman
- Climate Change Adaptaion through Integrated Water Harvesting (596 views) . . WikiBot
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Publications
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- Orange-Senqu - Preliminary TDA Executive Summary (368 views) . . WikiBot
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- Orange-Senqu - Preliminary TDA Executive Summary (368 views) . . WikiBot
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