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Mohale’s Hoek District

First-level unit, Lesotho: people, area, the units inside and neighbours, with risk values when released.

Page GRX-LSO-REdition Baseline Edition 2026Evidence close 2026-09-30ISO LSO / LSStatus UN member stateValues not yet publishedMethod v1.0.0-draft
193,273
people (GHSL 2025)
3,428 km²
area
8.1%
of Lesotho
7
units inside

01Imephu

Inside Mohale’s Hoek District

The 7 ADM2 units of Mohale’s Hoek District.

FIG 1 · 7 units inside Mohale’s Hoek District
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Units rise with people per km² · GHSL 2025 raster · terrain · ADM1 ADM2Risk values when released
Lowest fifthLow fifthMiddle fifthHigh fifthHighest fifthNo data
Column height and colour show people per km² by unit, in quantile fifths among the units shown (the key on the map gives the breaks); units with no people on the grid are grey, not the lowest class; the raster beneath is the GHSL 2025 population grid. Source observations, not index values. Choose a humanitarian figure from the list to colour and raise the units by it; each figure shows its source on the unit page. Select a unit to drill into the units inside it; the path above the map climbs back.
02Figures

People, area and density

Source observations from open grids summed inside the boundary; not index values.

Abantu · GHSL 2025

193,273

8.1% of Lesotho.

Abantu · WorldPop 2025

146,528

-24% against GHSL; the two grids differ in method.

Area

3,428 km²

56 people per km².

Code

LS-F

Subdivision code as carried by the boundary source.

03Humanitarian data

Mohale’s Hoek District in humanitarian data

Source observations from the Humanitarian Data Exchange, matched to this unit by name, each with its reference date, provider and licence. They are not index values.

Poverty headcount · 2024-12-31

27.9%

of people in multidimensional poverty. Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative · Public Domain / No restrictions (CC0).

04Units

7 units inside Mohale’s Hoek District

Each unit has its own page.

Boundary licences: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 · Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO)

Unit Code People (GHSL) People (WorldPop) Area km² Per km² Share Coast ≤ 10 m
Khoelenya – 19,176 16,952 323.17 59 11.7% 0
Lithipeng – 25,535 16,027 440.43 58 15.5% 0
Mashaleng – 12,949 12,044 71.89 180 7.9% 0
Mohale’s Hoek – 31,719 30,675 128.61 247 19.3% 0
Qhoasing – 25,336 15,249 1,045.72 24 15.4% 0
Siloe – 22,591 21,867 315.25 72 13.7% 0
Thaba-Mokhele – 27,215 17,849 465.36 58 16.5% 0
05Exposure

Open exposure layers

Count of H3 resolution-3 cells whose centre falls in the unit and that carry each Natural Earth layer.

Urban areas
66.2 H3 cells
Amachweba
None at this resolution
Izikhumulo zezindiza
None at this resolution
Major roads
379.7 H3 cells
Ojantshi
122.6 H3 cells
Rivers and lakes
311 H3 cells
06Ubungozi

Risk values

Values when released. Subnational risk values for Mohale’s Hoek District publish with the edition from The Global Risks Index. Until then, run a scenario on open data for Lesotho.
08Imithombo

Sources, credits and licences

ADM1 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen LSO ADM1, source: OpenStreetMap, Wambacher © OpenStreetMap contributors, licence: Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0 (share-alike: this boundary layer is offered under the same licence) · source · represents 2017. Offered under the same licence (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0), kept as its own layer and not merged into other data.
ADM2 boundaries
geoBoundaries (William & Mary geoLab), gbOpen LSO ADM2, source: FAO and the Ministry of Local Government, OCHA ROSEA, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Intergovernmental Organisations (CC BY 3.0 IGO) · source · represents 2020
Basemap
OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles (CC BY 4.0) · data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0). Vector tiles requested by the reader’s browser, unmodified; the map falls back to plain land and sea when the host does not answer.
Terrain
Terrain Tiles (Mapzen, AWS Open Data), compiled from SRTM and other public elevation sources (NASA, USGS, ETOPO1, GMTED, EU-DEM under the Copernicus programme, Geoscience Australia, Kartverket, INEGI, LINZ, data.gov.uk). Display relief, not survey data.
People
GHSL 2025 population grid, European Commission Joint Research Centre (CC BY 4.0), shown at 0.05° and summed per unit; WorldPop 2025 (CC BY 4.0) as a second estimate. Units smaller than a grid cell take the density of the cell under them.
Amazwe
Natural Earth (public domain).
Elevation
GEBCO Compilation Group (2024) GEBCO 2024 Grid (public domain), reduced to 0.05°: the share of each cell’s land at or below 10 m, weighted by GHSL 2025 people for the low coastal zone.
Position
Boundaries are shown for location only and take no position on any boundary, name or status.