Key facts
- Country
- Lesotho
- Capital
- Quthing (Moyeni)
- Total
- 2,916 km (1,126 sq mi)
- Density
- 39.60/km (102.6/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( CAT )
- Area code
- +266
- Hdi 2019
- 0.476 , low · 8th
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of Lesotho
- Country
- Lesotho
- Located in
- Lesotho
- Capital
- Quthing
- Population
- 115469
- Area
- 2916
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Eastern Cape
- Image
- Quthing Senqu.jpg
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- Commons category
- Quthing District
- language used
- Xhosa
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Encyclopedic overview
Quthing is a district of Lesotho. The town of Quthing (also known as Moyeni) is the camp town or capital of the district. There are two of the most important sets of dinosaur footprints in the region. There is a large panel of Bushman paintings at Qomoqomong. Quthing district is home to the Masitise Cave House, a satellite location of the Morija Museum & Archives. In the southwest, south and east, Quthing borders on the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Domestically, it borders Mohale's Hoek District in the north and Qacha's Nek District in the northeast.
As of 2006, the district had a population of 124,048 which was 6.61 per cent of the total population of the country. The total area of the district was 2,916 which was 9.61 per cent of the total area of the country. As of 2008, there were totally 62,602 employed people out of a total of 140,057 people in the district above 15 years of age.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Quthing District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.