Asahan Regency is a regency in

North Sumatra North Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Utara) is a province of Indonesia located on the northern part of the island of Sumatra. Its capital and largest city is Medan. North Sumatra is Indonesia's fourth most populous province after West Java, East Java and ...

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 ...

. Following the creation of the new

Batubara Regency Batubara Regency is a regency on North Sumatra's eastern shoreline, with Limapuluh as its seat. It was carved out from the seven most westerly coastal districts of Asahan Regency with effect from 15 June 2007. The new regency covers an area of 9 ...

(which was carved out of Asahan Regency on 15 June 2007), the regency now covers an area of 3,702.7 square kilometres; it had a population of 668,272 according to the 2010 census and 769,960 at the 2020 Census. Its administrative centre is now at

Kisaran Kisaran is a city in the North Sumatra province of Indonesia. Kisaran is the administrative capital of Asahan Regency. Kisaran is divided into two administrative districts (''kecamatan'') - West Kisaran District and East Kisaran District. Kisar ...

. The Regency surrounds but now does not include the city of Tanjungbalai which was formerly its capital. The

Asahan Sultanate The Sultanate of Asahan () was a Malay sultanate from approximately 1630 AD until 1946 AD. It was located in the north-east of the island of Sumatra, in what is now Indonesia and covered what is now the Asahan Regency. History The sultanat ...

was located in the region.

Administrative divisions

The regency is divided administratively into twenty-five

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 o ...

(''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 he locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and rban''kelurahan'') in each district and its postal code. Note: (a) Tanjung Balai District is not part of Tanjungbalai city, but lies between the city and the coast.

References

External links

Asahan official siteStatistic Of Asahan Regency
Regencies of North Sumatra {{NSumatra-geo-stub