Mafeteng District

Mafeteng
District
Landscape near Ha Khopolo, Mafeteng
Map of Lesotho with the district highlighted
Country	Lesotho
Capital	Mafeteng
Area
• Total	2,119 km2 (818 sq mi)
Population  (2016)
• Total	178,222
• Density	84/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (CAT)
Area code	+266
HDI (2019)	0.508[1] low · 6th

Mafeteng is a district of Lesotho. It has an area of 2,119 km² and a population in 2016 of 178,222. Mafeteng is the capital or camptown, and only town in the district. In the west, Mafeteng borders on the Free State Province of South Africa. Domestically, it borders on the following districts Maseru District in the northeast and Mohale's Hoek District in the southeast.

As of 2006, the district had a population of 192,621 which was 10.26 per cent of the total population of the country. The total area of the district was 2,119 which was 6.98 per cent of the total area of the country. The density of population in the district was 91.00 per km². As of 2008, there were 49 per cent economically active people in the district. There were totally 127,664 employed people out of a total of 262,454 people in the district above 15 years of age.