Jombang Regency ( id, Kabupaten Jombang; jv, ꦏꦧꦸꦥꦠꦺꦤ꧀ꦗꦺꦴꦩ꧀ꦧꦁ) is a
regency
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of
East Java
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,
Indonesia
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, situated to the southwest of
Surabaya. The capital of the regency is the town of
Jombang. The regency has an area of 1,159.48 km
2 and population of 1,202,407 at the 2010 census and 1,318,062 at the 2020 census. It became a regency in 1910. It was the birthplace of
Abdurrahman Wahid
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, the 4th
president of Indonesia
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.
Administrative districts
![Jombang county](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Jombang_county.png)
The regency is divided into twenty-one
districts (''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and population totals from 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, and its postal codes.
Climate
References
External links
Official site
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