Place:Qacha's Nek, Lesotho

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NameQacha's Nek
Alt namesQacha's Neksource: Wikipedia
TypeDistrict
Located inLesotho
Contained Places
Inhabited place
Qacha's Nek
Sehlabathebe
Sekake
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Qacha's Nek is a district of Lesotho. Qacha's Nek is the capital or camptown, and only town in the district. In the south, Qacha's Nek borders on the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, and it has a short border with KwaZulu-Natal Province in the far east. Domestically, it borders on Quthing District in southwest, Mohale's Hoek District in west and Thaba-Tseka District in the northern direction.

As of 2006, the district had a population of 69,749 which was 3.72 per cent of the total population of the country. The total area of the district was 2,349 which was 7.74 per cent of the total area of the country. The density of population in the district was 30.00 per km2. As of 2008, there were economically active people in the district. There were totally 53,126 employed people out of a total of 100,776 people in the district above 15 years of age. The total area planted in 2009 was 10,168 which formed 2.52 per cent of the total area planted in the country. The total production was 3,278 tonnes, which was 2.18 per cent of the totals in the country, with maize being the major crop.

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