Sinjai Regency is a
regency
A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...
of
South Sulawesi Province of
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 Guine ...
. The regency is separated from the
Bone Regency
Bone Regency is a regency of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Originally the seat of the Bone state, it joined Indonesia in 1950. The regency covers an area of 4,559.00 km2 and had a population of 717,682 at the 2010 Census, 742,527 at the 2015 Inte ...
to its north by the River Tangka. The regency covers an area of 819.96 km
2 and had a population of 228,936 at the 2010 Census and 259,478 at the 2020 Census. It includes the Nine Islands (''Kepulauan Sembilan'') in the Gulf of Bone off the east coast of the southern peninsula of
Sulawesi, a group which forms a district within the regency. The regency's principal town lies at
Sinjai, a port situated on the east coast of that peninsula.
Administrati Districts
The regency is divided into nine
districts (''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census.
[Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.] The table also includes the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district.
References
Regencies of South Sulawesi
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