Kabaena or Tokotua is an island in 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 ...

, Indonesia, off the coast 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 ...

. Most of it is a part of

Bombana Regency Bombana Regency (''Kabupaten Bombana'') is a regency of Southeast Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. It consists of part of the southeast peninsula of Sulawesi, together with most of the substantial offshore island of Kabaena to the south. It covers a ...

within

Southeast Sulawesi Southeast Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Tenggara) is a province on the island of Sulawesi, forming the southeastern peninsula of that island, together with a number of substantial offshore islands such as Buton, Muna, Kabaena and Wawonii (formerly ...

province, although the southernmost district (Talaga Raya) is administratively part of

Central Buton Regency Central Buton Regency ( id, Kabupaten Buton Tengah) is a new regency of Southeast Sulawesi established by separation from Buton Regency under Act No.15 of 2014, dated 23 July 2014. It covers an area of 837.08 km2 comprising the southern parts ...

. The island's area is 891.36 km² and its total population at the 2010 Census was 35,558 and at the 2020 Census was 42,877; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 43,464.

Administrative Districts

The island includes six of the 22 districts of Bombana Regency, and one district of Central Buton Regency. These seven districts are tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2021. The table also includes the administrative centre of each district, the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') and small offshore islands in each district, and its post code. Note: (a) Includes the offshore islands of Damalawa Besar and Damalawa Kecil. (b) Talaga Raya District comprises the southern part of Kabaena Island together with two smaller islands
off its south-east coast - Talaga Besar (''Great Talaga'') and Talaga Kecil (''Little Talaga''); over 60% of the district's population inhabit Talaga Kecil, which contained 7,836 inhabitants
(at the 2020 Census) in its area of 3.29 km².

Villages

The island's 40 villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') are listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. Six of the 40 villages (indicated by asterisks below) have the status of ''kelurahan'', while the other 34 are ''desa''.

References

Islands of Sulawesi Landforms of Southeast Sulawesi {{SESulawesi-geo-stub