Jeneponto Regency ( mak, ᨍᨙᨊᨙᨄᨚᨈᨚ, Je’ne’ponto, ) is a

regency A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...

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 Sula ...

Province of

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. It covers the south coast of the southern peninsula of

Sulawesi Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...

, with a total area of 749.79 km² and a population of 342,222 at the 2010 Census and 401,610 at the 2020 Census. The official estimate for mid 2021 was 405,508. The principal town lies at Bontosunggu. The northern part of the regency (including an inland salient towards the northeast forming Rumbia District) consists of a plateau with an altitude of 500 to 1400 metres above sea level, the middle part has an altitude of 100 to 500 metres, while the south includes lowland areas with an altitude of 0 to 150 metres, including a coastline of 114 km on the

Flores Sea The Flores Sea covers of water in Indonesia. The sea is bounded on the north by the island of Celebes and on the south by Sunda Islands of Flores and Sumbawa. Geography The seas that border the Flores Sea are the Bali Sea (to the west), Java ...

Administrative Districts

Jeneponto Regency is divided into eleven

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 2020 Census, together with the official estimates for mid 2021.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2022.

References

Regencies of South Sulawesi {{SSulawesi-geo-stub