North Aceh Regency ( id, Kabupaten Aceh Utara) is a

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Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam Aceh ( ), officially the Aceh Province ( ace, Nanggroë Acèh; id, Provinsi Aceh) is the westernmost province of Indonesia. It is located on the northernmost of Sumatra island, with Banda Aceh being its capital and largest city. Granted a spe ...

(Aceh Special District), in

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. It is located on the island of

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. The regency covers an area of 3,236.86 square kilometres and had a population of 534,085 at the 2010 census and 602,793 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 608,106. The administrative centre is now at

Lhoksukon Lhoksukon is a town in Aceh province of Indonesia and it is the seat (capital) of North Aceh Regency. Climate Lhoksukon has a tropical rainforest climate A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical ...

; this followed the separation in 2001 of the former capital of Lhokseumawe, which was cut out of the regency by Law No. 2 of 2001 on 21 June 2001 to form an independent city.

Economy

This regency is included in one of the largest industrial regions outside

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, especially with the opening of liquid gas processing industry plants based on PT Arun LNG in Lhokseumawe, 1974. There were several large factories nearby at the time: PT.Kertas Kraft Aceh, pabrik Pupuk AAF (Aceh Asean Fertilizer) and pabrik Pupuk Iskandar Muda (PIM). The Port of Krueng Geukueh is located in the regency. In the

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sector, the regency has a good reputation as an important

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producer. The whole North Aceh Regency has the greatest potential of any region in Aceh and its income per capita is above Rp 1.4 million (without oil and natural gas) or Rp 6 million (with oil and natural gas). Gas and petroleum fields were found in Lhokseumawe, North Aceh's former

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around the 1970s. Then, many investors interested in its natural resources came to Aceh. Since then,

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(LNG) processed in refinery of PT. Arun Natural Gas Liquefaction (NGL) Co, coming from the installation of PT. ExxonMobil Oil Indonesia (EMOI) in Lhokseumawe industrial zone (now :

Arun Lhokseumawe Special Economic Zone Arun Lhokseumawe Special Economic Zone ( id, Kawasan Ekonomi Khusus Arun Lhokseumawe) or abbreviated as Arun Lhokseumawe KEK, is a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) located in Lhokseumawe city and North Aceh Regency, Aceh, Indonesia. This SEZ has been ...

), had changed this regency to modern

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industrial region. There are 2 sectors dominating economical activity in North Aceh, i.e. mining and excavating, and processing industrial sector. In mining sector, the gas wells processed by PT. EMOI surely become one of this sector's pioneering factor.

Religion

North Aceh's inhabitants are predominantly

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. Minorities still get the freedom to worship according to their respective religions.

Border

* North: Malacca Strait * East: East Aceh Regency * South:

Central Aceh Regency Central Aceh Regency ( id, Kabupaten Aceh Tengah) is a regency in Aceh Special Region (''Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam'') of Indonesia. It is located on Sumatra island. Formerly this regency covered a much larger area; in 1969, the Southeast Aceh Reg ...

* West: Bireuen Regency

Administrative districts

The regency is divided administratively into twenty-seven

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(''kecamatan''), listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2021.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2022. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages (''gampong'') within each district, and its post code.

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