_#_Maritime claims: none—landlocked
_#_Climate: temperate; cool to cold, dry winters; hot, wet summers
_#_Terrain: mostly highland with some plateaus, hills, and mountains
_#_Natural resources: some diamonds and other minerals, water, agricultural and grazing land
_#_Land use: arable land 10%; permanent crops 0%; meadows and pastures 66%; forest and woodland 0%; other 24%
_#_Environment: population pressure forcing settlement in marginal areas results in overgrazing, severe soil erosion, soil exhaustion; desertification
_#_Note: landlocked; surrounded by South Africa; Highlands Water Project will control, store, and redirect water to South Africa
_*People #_Population: 1,801,174 (July 1991), growth rate 2.6% (1991)
_#_Birth rate: 36 births/1,000 population (1991)
_#_Death rate: 10 deaths/1,000 population (1991)