Sinjai Regency is a
regency
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of
South Sulawesi
South Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Selatan) is a province in the southern peninsula of Sulawesi. The Selayar Islands archipelago to the south of Sulawesi is also part of the province. The capital is Makassar. The province is bordered by Central Sul ...
Province of
Indonesia
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. The regency is separated from the
Bone Regency 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
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(''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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