Lesotho by

Location

cocospillane — 2013-09-02 16:20:19 UTC

Absolute Location- 29.4667ºS 27.9333ºE

Relative Location- Surronded by South Africa, South of the Eqautor, and East of Swaziland

Resources

cocospillane — 2013-09-02 16:26:04 UTC

Wikipedia, 9/2/13, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesotho

About.com, 9/2/13, http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/sitesituation.htm

Ivanova, 9/3/13, http://marianna-ivanova.com/ref-country-lso.php

CIA Fact Book, 9/2/13, https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/lt.html

Info Please, 9/3/13, http://www.infoplease.com/atlas/country/lesotho.html

Rutgers University, 9/3/13, http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~natalieb/GlobalAfrica.htm

allAfrica, 9/3/13, http://allafrica.com/stories/201308141356.html

Site

cocospillane — 2013-09-02 16:41:05 UTC

Lesotho is one of the highest elevated countries in the world with the entire country above 1,000 Meters or 3,281 feet. To add on to the elevation the country is also very mountainous.

Situation

cocospillane — 2013-09-02 17:29:26 UTC

Lesotho is a country surrounded South Africa, to the east of the Atlantic Ocean and to the west of the Indian Ocean. Because Lesotho is surrounded by South Africa it is land locked which makes it harder to export resources along with getting connection to other countries

Human-Inviroment Interaction

cocospillane — 2013-09-02 18:41:11 UTC

The humans effect the environment in multiple ways. One is they mine diamonds in the mountains. The second way is they farm a lot up in the lower mountains

Region

cocospillane — 2013-09-03 21:45:18 UTC

Lesotho is in Sub-Saharan Africa. Lesotho is divided up into ten regions; Mafeteng, Maseru, Berea, Leribe, Butha-Buthe, Mokhotlong, Thaba-Tseka, Mohale's Hoek, Qacha's Nek, Quthing.

Place

cocospillane — 2013-09-03 22:12:33 UTC

Human-

-The religion is predominately Christian
-The main ethnicity is Sotho
-In Lesotho they speak Sesotho and English
-The country's government has a parliament, but also has a constitutional monarch

Place

The climate consists of wet cool winter's and warm dry summers
The terrain is very mountainous and the elevation is very high with it lowest point at 1,400 Meters
The natural resources in Lesotho are diamonds, sand, water and clay

Movement

cocospillane — 2013-09-03 23:03:38 UTC

People and information move by Air, Road, and some by railway, but not by sea due to the fact that Lesotho is land locked

Map of Lesotho

cocospillane — 2013-09-03 23:06:35 UTC

Maseru is south west of Tetetebeng by approximately 22.5 miles
Mohale's Hoek is north west of Mekaling by 12.5 miles
Mafeteng is north of Boranta 7.5 miles
Mokhotlong is east of the Seqnu River by 5 miles

Chloropleth

cocospillane — 2013-09-04 02:05:41 UTC

This map shows the population of South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho

Proportional Sympbol Map

cocospillane — 2013-09-04 02:31:54 UTC

Symbol size represents the percent of the population with AID's

Isoline Map

cocospillane — 2013-09-04 03:01:19 UTC

This map shows what crops are grown in different places in South Africa and Lesotho

Current Event

cocospillane — 2013-09-04 03:05:25 UTC

This article relates was about the idea that botswana, lesotho, swaziland, and azania making a new country. This relates to the unit in multiple ways. One it would change the relative location All these countries. Another is that it would make all maps from the past inaccurate, and we did an exercise on map accuracy one day.