Camptown (country subdivision)

A camptown, in the country of Lesotho, refers to a district capital for one of the ten districts of Lesotho.

The exceptions to this rule are Berea District whose capital is called Teyateyaneng, Quthing District whose capital is called Moyeni and Leribe District whose capital is most often called Hlotse.

It presumably derives from the 19th century police camps, then (now archaic) in Sesotho likampo.

Official colonial government terminology was government reserve, which prosaically became urban area post-independence.

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