Butha-Buthe District

Butha-Bothe
District
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Map of Lesotho with the district highlighted
Country	Lesotho
Capital	Butha-Buthe
Area
• Total	1,767 km2 (682 sq mi)
Population  (2014)
• Total	118,242
• Density	67/km2 (170/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (CAT)
Area code	+266
HDI (2019)	0.536[1] low · 3rd

Butha-Buthe is a district of Lesotho. Butha-Buthe is the capital or camptown, and only town in the district. In the north, Butha-Buthe borders on the Free State Province of South Africa. Domestically, it borders on Mokhotlong District in southeast and Leribe District on the south.

As of 2014, the district had a population of 118,242 which was 5.88 per cent of the total population of the country. The total area of the district was 1,767 which was 5.82 per cent of the total area of the country. As of 2008, there were 49 per cent economically active people in the district. There were totally 71,012 employed people out of a total of 154,384 people in the district above 15 years of age. The total area planted in 2009 was 7,164 which formed 1.77 per cent of the total area planted in the country.