Teluk Bintuni Regency or Bintuni Bay Regency is a

regency In a monarchy, a regent () is a person appointed to govern a state because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been dete ...

of West Papua Province of

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...

. It covers an area of 18,637 km², comprising administrative districts on three sides of Bintuni Bay, a gulf that separates the

Bird's Head Peninsula The Bird's Head Peninsula ( Indonesian: , , meaning Bird's Head in Indonesian and Dutch) or Doberai Peninsula (''Semenanjung Doberai'') is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea, comprising the Indones ...

and

Bomberai Peninsula Bomberai Peninsula () is located in the Western New Guinea region. It is south of the Bird's Head Peninsula, and Bintuni Bay separates the two peninsulas. To the west lies the Sebakor Bay and to the south Kamrau Bay. On the southeast Arguni ...

which together form the main geographical constituents of the province; it had a population of 52,422 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011 and 87,083 at the 2020 Census;Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 90,101 (comprising 52,005 males and 38,096 females).Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, ''Kabupaten Teluk Bintuni Dalam Angka 2024'' (Katalog-BPS 1102001.9206) The administrative centre is the town of Bintuni.

Geography

The Bintuni Bay area is one of the new expansion districts in the province of West Papua which was ratified by the Plenary Session of the Indonesian House of Representatives on 12 November 2002. Located between the southern coast of the Bird's Head Peninsula and the Onin Peninsula coast, overlooking the Seram Sea off the west coast of West Papua. Adjacent to the narrow neck of the mountain that connects the Bird's Head Peninsula with other regions in West Papua Province. Geographically the area of Bintuni Bay Regency is between 1°57'50"LS - 3°11'26"LS and 1.9.32°44'59" - 134°14'49"E and is located between Bird's Head south coast and Onin Peninsula north coast overlooking the Seram sea off the west coast of Papua. Administratively, the Bintuni Bay Regency is bordered by:

To the north, it is bordered by
Manokwari Regency Manokwari Regency is a regency in West Papua, Indonesia. Following the splitting away of twenty of its former districts in 2013, it now covers an area of 2,762.89 km2 and had a population of 192,663 at the 2020 Census;Badan Pusat Statistik, ...
(Senopi District and Kebar District) and
Arfak Mountains Regency Arfak Mountains Regency (''Kabupaten Pegunungan Arfak'') is a regency of the West Papua Province of Indonesia. It was formed in 2013 from the western districts of Manokwari Regency. The areas now comprised in the new regency had a population of ...
(Testega District and Didohu District);
In the west, it is bordered by South Sorong Regency (Kokoda District, North Kokoda District and Kais District) and Maybrat Regency (South Aifat District and East Aifat District);
To the south, it is bordered by
Kaimana Regency Kaimana Regency is a Regencies of Indonesia, regency in the south of West Papua (province), West Papua province of Indonesia. It covers an area of 18,500 sq. km, and had a population of 46,249 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, ...
(Teluk Arguni District) and
Fakfak Regency Fakfak Regency - formerly spelt "Fak-Fak" - is a Regencies of Indonesia, regency of West Papua (province), West Papua province of Indonesia. It covers an area of 14,320 km2, and had a population of 66,828 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statisti ...
(Bomberay District);
To the east, it is bordered by
Teluk Wondama Regency Teluk Wondama Regency or Wondama Bay Regency (; Dutch: ''Regentschap Wondammen-baai'') is a regency of West Papua province of Indonesia. It covers a land area of 4,844.035 km2, and had a population of 26,321 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Sta ...
(Kuri Wamesa District, Windesi District, Nikiwar District and Wamesi District) and South Manokwari Regency (Tahota District and Dataran Isim District).Direktorat Jendral Cipta Karya Kementerian Pekerjaan Umum dan Perumahan Rakyat, Jakarta, 2021

Administrative districts

The regency comprises twenty-four

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''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011 and the 2020 Census,Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. together with the official estimates as at mid 2023.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, ''Kabupaten Teluk Bintuni Dalam Angka 2024'' (Katalog-BPS 1102001.9206) The table also includes the locations of the district centres, the number of

administrative village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban village ...

s in each district (totaling 115 rural ''kampung'' and 2 urban ''kelurahan''), and its post code. The first six districts listed below form the northeast part of the

; Wamesa District is situated to the northeast of Bintuni Bay; and the remaining 17 districts lie in the southeast part of the

. Note: (a) includes two ''kelurahan'' - East Bintuni (''Bintuni Timur'', with 16,434 inhabitants in mid 2022) and West Bintuni (''Bintuni Barat'', with 5,323 inhabitants in mid 2022). Note also that the figures in the area column appear to contain duplications/errors, but these are the official figures published by BPS.

Villages

* Muturi

References

External links

Statistics publications from Statistics Indonesia (BPS)
{{West Papua Regencies of West Papua (province)