Cianjur Regency is a

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''(kabupaten)'' of

West Java West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten ...

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. The area of the regency is 3,614.35 km² and its population at the 2010 Census was 2,171,281; the 2020 Census produced a total of 2,477,560 and the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 2,506,682. The town of

Cianjur Cianjur ( su, ᮎᮤᮃᮔ᮪ᮏᮥᮁ) is a town and district in the West Java province of Indonesia, and is the seat of Cianjur Regency. The district of Cianjur is located along one of the main roads between Jakarta (120 km to the northwe ...

is its capital. Northern parts of the regency form a valley (above the 'neck'), and are far more densely populated than southern regions. As such, a portion of the northern valley (consisting of Cugenang, Pacet, Sukaresmi and Cipanas districts in the far northwest of the regency) was briefly included in a definition of

Greater Jakarta The Jakarta metropolitan area or Greater Jakarta, known locally as Jabodetabek (an acronym of Jakarta–Bogor–Depok–Tangerang–Bekasi), and sometimes extended to Jabodetabekjur (with the acronym extended to include part of Cianjur Regency) ...

called ''Jabodetabekjur'' (''jur'' for Cianjur).

Administrative divisions

Cianjur Regency is divided into thirty-two

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(''kecamatan''), listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 and 2020 Censuses, together with the official estimates as at mid 2021. The table also includes the location of the district administrative centres, the number of villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its post code. (A) Districts south of the "neck" (B) Districts north of the "neck" Note that 4 districts (indicated by "*" in the table above) for a while formed part of the defined metropolitan district of ''Jabodetabekjur''.
Of the 360 villages, 354 are rural ''desa'', while 6 are urban ''kelurahan'', which are all part of Cianjur District (''kecamatan'').

Tourism

Mount Padang

A terracing structure, although local people mention it as a

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, lies on Mount Padang, 31 kilometer from

through Warung Kondang. It is the biggest Megalithic Site in

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References

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