Butha-Buthe District
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Key facts
- Country
- Lesotho
- Capital
- Butha-Buthe
- Total
- 1,767 km (682 sq mi)
- Density
- 66.92/km (173.3/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( CAT )
- Area code
- +266
- Hdi 2019
- 0.536 , low · 3rd
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Lesotho
- Country
- Lesotho
- Located in
- Lesotho
- Capital
- Butha-Buthe
- Population
- 118242
- Area
- 1767
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Free State
- Image
- Butha-Buthe.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Butha-Buthe District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.