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Maseru District

First-level unit, Lesotho: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-LSO-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO LSO / LSStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
568,660
people (GHSL 2025)
4,048 km²
area
24%
of Lesotho
13
units inside

01نقشہ

Inside Maseru District

The 13 ADM2 units of Maseru District.

FIG 1 · 13 units inside Maseru District
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

People · GHSL 2025

568,660

24% of Lesotho.

People · WorldPop 2025

697,630

+23% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

رقبہ

4,048 km²

140 people per km².

کوڈ

LS-A

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Maseru District in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Poverty headcount · 2024-12-31

16.2%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

04Units

13 units inside Maseru District

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit کوڈ People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Kubake – 31,232 28,712 537.94 58 5.2% 0
Likolobeng – 41,344 38,766 1,127.41 37 6.8% 0
Lilala – 41,189 53,689 286.76 144 6.8% 0
Makhoalipana – 20,324 20,150 907.92 22 3.4% 0
Makhoarane – 33,374 43,203 219.01 152 5.5% 0
Manonyane – 41,808 44,537 131.6 318 6.9% 0
Maseru (Maseru District) – 228,788 300,222 142.07 1,610 37.9% 0
Mohlakeng – 50,018 60,569 144.12 347 8.3% 0
Qiloane – 11,719 22,466 98.79 119 1.9% 0
Ratau – 36,216 36,217 220.56 164 6% 0
Semonkong – 17,007 12,803 74.75 228 2.8% 0
Senqunyane – 32,614 18,157 907.06 36 5.4% 0
Thota-ea-Moli – 18,279 38,624 108.02 169 3% 0
05زد

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
None at this resolution
بندرگاہیں
None at this resolution
Airports
None at this resolution
Major roads
None at this resolution
Railways
None at this resolution
Rivers and lakes
None at this resolution
06خطرہ

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Maseru District publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Lesotho.
08ماخذات

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen LSO ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen LSO ADM2, source: FAO and the Ministry of Local Government, OCHA ROSEA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
ممالک
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.