Map - Mafeteng District (Mafeteng District)

Mafeteng is a district of Lesotho. It has an area of 2,119 km2 and a population in 2016 of 178,222. Mafeteng is the capital or camptown, and only town in the district. In the west, Mafeteng borders on the Free State Province of South Africa. Domestically, it borders on the following districts Maseru District in the northeast and Mohale's Hoek District in the southeast.

As of 2006, the district had a population of 192,621 which was 10.26 per cent of the total population of the country. The total area of the district was 2,119 which was 6.98 per cent of the total area of the country. The density of population in the district was 91.00 per km2. As of 2008, there were 49 per cent economically active people in the district. There were totally 127,664 employed people out of a total of 262,454 people in the district above 15 years of age.

As of 2006, the district had a population of 192,621, 10.26 per cent of the population of the country. The area of the district was 2,119, 6.98 per cent of the country. The population density in the district was 91.00 persons per square kilometre, compared to 62 for the country. There were nine constituencies and twelve community councils in the district. As of 2006, 546 people tested HIV positive, 21.60 per cent of the HIV-positive persons in the country. 222 of these (15.60%) were men; 324 (25.80%) were women.