Jayawijaya Regency is one of the regencies (''kabupaten'') in the

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...

n province of

Highland Papua Highland Papua ( id, Papua Pegunungan) is a province of Indonesia, which roughly follows the borders of Papuan customary region of Lano-Pago, shortened to La Pago. It covers an area of and had a population of 1,408,641 according to the official es ...

. It occupies an area of 13,925.31 km² in the

Baliem Valley The Baliem Valley ( id, Lembah Baliem; also spelled Balim and sometimes known as the Grand Valley) is a valley of the Central Highlands in Western New Guinea. Specifically in Highland Papua, Indonesia, which is inhabited mainly by the Dani peo ...

, situated in the central highlands of the province. It had a population of 196,085 at the 2010 Census, and 269,553 at the 2020 Census. Its capital is

Wamena Wamena is a town and the capital of the Indonesian province of Highland Papua. It also serves as the seat of Jayawijaya Regency. It is the largest town in Indonesian Papua's highlands, in the Baliem Valley and had a population of 64,967 at the ...

Administrative districts

In 2010 the Jayawijaya Regency comprised eleven

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions ...

(''distrik''), listed below with their populations at the 2010 Census. Since 2010, the number of districts has been raised to forty by the splitting of existing districts, and these are all shown below with their area and their population at the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. The table also includes the location of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district and its post code. Note that those districts with 2010 populations given in the 2010 Population column were the eleven districts extent in 2010; the remaining twenty-nine districts with no figure given in the 2010 Population column were those created from the original eleven districts subsequent to 2010.

References

External links

Statistics publications from Statistics Indonesia (BPS)
{{Authority control Regencies of Highland Papua