Kubu Raya Regency or Great Kubu Regency is a

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West Kalimantan West Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Barat) is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five Indonesian provinces comprising Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Its capital city is Pontianak, Indonesia, Pontianak. The province has ...

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 ...

. It was created on 17 July 2007 from the (larger) central and southern part of

Pontianak Regency Mempawah Regency (formerly the Pontianak Regency) is a regency of West Kalimantan Province of Indonesia. Since 2007 it covers 1,276.90 km2, and had a population of 234,021 at the 2010 Census and 301,560 at the 2020 Census; the official estimat ...

. It covers an area of 6,985.24 km², and it had a population of 500,970 at the 2010 Census and 609,392 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 615,125. The principal town lies at Sungai Raya, directly adjacent to the City of

Pontianak Pontianak or Khuntien is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan, founded first as a trading port on the island of Borneo, occupying an area of 118.31 km2 in the delta of the Kapuas River at a point where it is joined by ...

. Despite its close location to Pontianak, the regional capital and economic centre of the West Kalimantan Province, Kubu Raya highly lacks sufficient infrastructure development, which causes general suspicions on the performance of its local government.

Administrative Districts

The Kubu Raya Regency consists of nine

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(''kecamatan''), 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.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2022. The table includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'') in each district, and its post code. Notes: (a) including the town (''kelurahan'') of Sungai Raya, which had 62,010 inhabitants at the 2010 Census; by the 2020 Census this town had been split into several ''desa'' within the district, among which the ''desa'' of Sungai Raya had 15,089 inhabitants at the 2020 Census. (b) except the ''desa'' of Kapur, which has a post code of 78234 and a population of 15,274 at the 2020 Census.

References

Regencies of West Kalimantan {{WKalimantan-geo-stub