Bangli Regency is the one and only landlocked
regency
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(''
kabupaten'') of
Bali,
Indonesia
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. It covers an area of 520.81 km
2 and had a population of 215,353 at the 2010 Census and 258,721 at the 2020 Census. Its regency seat is the town of
Bangli.
Up until 1907, Bangli was one of the nine kingdoms of Bali. The capital has a famous Hindu temple, the
Pura Kehen
Pura Kehen is a Balinese Hindu temple located in Cempaga, Bangli Regency, Bali. The temple is set on the foot of a wooded hill, about north of the town center. Established at least in the 13th-century, Pura Kehen was the royal temple of the Ba ...
, which dates from the 11th century. Bangli also has one village, lies surround a hill, Demulih.
Geography
The northern part of the district includes the main road to the north coast passing through
Kintamani and around the crater in which
Gunung Batur
Mount Batur ''(Gunung Batur)'' is an active volcano located at the center of two concentric calderas north west of Mount Agung on the island of Bali, Indonesia. The south east side of the larger 10×13 km caldera contains a caldera lake. Bo ...
sits.
From the Demulih hill, Bali Island, particularly its southern part can be seen –
Kuta
Kuta is a tourist area, administratively an urban village (''kelurahan''), and the capital of Kuta District, Badung Regency, southern Bali, Indonesia. A former fishing village, it was one of the first towns on Bali to see substantial tourist de ...
,
Nusa Dua
Nusa Dua is a resort area built in the 1970s in the southern part of Bali, Indonesia. Known as an enclave of large five-star resorts, it covers 350 hectares of land and encloses more than 20 resorts. It is located 22 kilometers from Denpasar, t ...
,
Gianyar
Gianyar Regency is a regency (''kabupaten'') in the Indonesian province and island of Bali, Indonesia. It has an area of 368.0 km2 and had a population of 469,777 at the 2010 Census, and 515,344 at the 2020 Census, making it the second most ...
and a part of
Klungkung
Klungkung Regency is the smallest regency (''kabupaten'') on Bali, Indonesia. It has an area of 315 km2 and had a population at the 2010 Census of 170,543 which increased to 206,925 at the Census of 2020. The administrative centre for the reg ...
.
Bangli is the only regency in Bali which is landlocked.
Administrative districts
The Regency is divided into four districts (''kecamatan''), listed below from south to north with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census.
[Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.] The most northern district - Kintamani - occupies over 70% of the regency's area and has 43.5% of its population. The table also includes the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its postal codes.
Climate
Bangli has a
tropical monsoon climate
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(Af) with moderate rainfall from April to October and heavy rainfall from November to March.
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