Ketapang Regency is a

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in the south of the province of

West Kalimantan West Kalimantan () is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five Indonesian provinces comprising Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Its capital and largest city is Pontianak. It is bordered by East Kalimantan and Central ...

, on the island of

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. Ketapang Regency occupies an area of 31,588 km², and at the census in 2010 it had 427,460 inhabitants following the splitting off of five districts in the north-west of the regency on 2 January 2007 to form the new

North Kayong Regency North Kayong Regency is a regency of West Kalimantan province in Indonesia. It covers an area of 4,110.12 km2, and had a population of 95,594 at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and 126,571 at the 2020 Census;Badan Pusat Statist ...

;Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. the 2020 census revealed a growth in population to 570,657 over the intervening decade;Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. the official estimate as at mid 2024 was 599,890 (comprising 311,507 males and 288,383 females).Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2025, ''Kabupaten Ketapang Dalam Angka 2025'' (Katalog-BPS 1102001.6106) The principal town lies at

Ketapang Ketapang, or ''Tau-pang'' in Teochew, is the administrative capital of Ketapang Regency (''Kabupaten Ketapang''), one of the regencies of West Kalimantan province on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. Ketapang town is located at and is a tow ...

Administrative districts

When Ketapang Regency was originally created, it consists into the districts of Kendawangan, Manis Mata, Marau, Singkup, Tumbang Titi, Matan Hilir, Nanga Tayap, Sandai, Simpang Hilir, Simpang Hulu, Sukadana and Maya Karimata Islands. In 1988, Matan Hilir district was divided into two districts, namely Matan Hilir Utara and Matan Hilir Selatan. On 17 June 1996, Teluk Batang district was established by split off from the western part of Simpang Hilir district. In 2003, five new districts were established (Delta Pawan (equating to

town) and Muara Pawan districts were split off from the southern part of Matan Hilir Utara district, Benua Kayong district was split off from northern part of Matan Hilir Selatan district, Hulu Sungai district was split off from eastern part of Sandai district, Simpang Dua was split off from the southern part of Simpang Hulu district, Air Upas and Singkup districts were split off from the southeastern and southwestern parts of Marau district, respectively). In 2005, another three new districts were created (Seponti district was cut out from the northwestern part of Teluk Batang district, Pemahan and Sungai Melayu Rayak districts were cut out from the northern and western parts of Tumbang Titi district, respectively). In 2007, a new district named Jelai Hulu was carved out from the northeastern part of Kendawangan district. Following the splitting off of the five districts to form the North Kayong Regency in January 2007, the Ketapang Regency now consists of twenty

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(''kecamatan''), 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 2024.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2025, ''Kabupaten Ketapang Dalam Angka 2025'' (Katalog-BPS 1102001.6106) The table includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of

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s in each district (totaling 253 rural ''desa'' and 9 urban ''kelurahan''), and its post code. Notes: (a) includes some 30 offshore islands, mainly off the southwest coast, of which the largest are ''Pulau Bawal'' and ''Pulau Gelam''.
(b) including four ''kelurahan'' - Kauman, Mulia Kerta, Tuan Tuan and Banjar. (c) including five ''kelurahan'' - Kantor, Tengah, Mulia Baru, Sampit and Sukaharja.

References

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