A regency seat () is a capital or seat of government of 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 ...

in Indonesia. It is roughly equivalent of

county seat A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or parish (administrative division), civil parish. The term is in use in five countries: Canada, China, Hungary, Romania, and the United States. An equiva ...

in the United States or

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in the

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. Legally, regency seats are not administrative subdivisions of Indonesia and have no official boundaries. A regency seat may occupy an entire

district 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 county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

(such as Sigli in

Pidie Regency Pidie Regency (also known as: Pidie, Pědir; "king of"; ) is a regency of Aceh Special region, in Indonesia. It is located in the north of the island of Sumatra Sumatra () is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest ...

, Ngawi (town) in

Ngawi Regency Ngawi Regency (Javanese language, Javanese: ꦏꦧꦸꦥꦠꦺꦤ꧀ꦔꦮꦶ) is an inland Regency (Indonesia), regency (''kabupaten'') of Indonesia, on the island of Java. Ngawi is well known around the world for its ''Pithecanthropus erectus'' ...

), a part of district (such as Sarilamak in Harau district, Lima Puluh Kota Regency), or several districts (such as Ungaran, which consists of West Ungaran district and East Ungaran district in Semarang Regency). The regent offices in most Indonesian regencies usually have Traditional design representing a Region, although dome in a roof sometimes can be added in some Indonesian regent offices, resembling a U.S. state capitol or a county courthouse.

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