Quthing District

Quthing
District
Quthing Senqu
Map of Lesotho with the district highlighted
Country	Lesotho
Capital	Moyeni/Quthing
Area
• Total	2,916 km2 (1,126 sq mi)
Population  (2016)
• Total	115,469
• Density	40/km2 (100/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (CAT)
Area code	+266
HDI (2019)	0.476[1] low · 8th

Quthing is a district of Lesotho. Moyeni (also known as Quthing), 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.