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Thaba-Tseka District

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district of Lesotho

Key facts

Country
Lesotho
Capital
Thaba-Tseka
Total
4,270 km (1,650 sq mi)
Density
31.7/km (82.1/sq mi)
Time zone
UTC+2 ( CAT )
Area code
+266
Hdi 2019
0.451 , low · 10th

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Wikidata facts

Country
Lesotho
Located in
Lesotho
Population
135347
Area
4270
Time zone
UTC+02:00
Shares border with
KwaZulu-Natal
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Thaba Tseka - panoramio.jpg
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Thaba-Tseka District
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Encyclopedic overview

Thaba-Tseka is a district of Lesotho. Thaba-Tseka is also the name of the district's capital or camptown, which is the only town in the district. In the east, Thaba-Tseka borders on the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa. Domestically, it borders on Mokhotlong District in northeast, Leribe District in north, Berea District in northwest, Maseru District in west, Mohale's Hoek District in southwest and Qacha's Nek District in the southern direction. The district is one of the major tourist attractions in Lesotho because of the second largest arch dam in Africa Katse Dam.

As of 2016, the district had a population of 135,347 which was 6.92 per cent of the total population of the country. The total area of the district was 4,270 which was 14.07 per cent of the total area of the country. The density of population in the district was 30.00 per km. As of 2008, there were 38 per cent economically active people in the district. There were totally 77,836 employed people out of a total of 156,640 people in the district above 15 years of age.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thaba-Tseka District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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