Pamekasan is a
town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world.
Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and administrative center of
Pamekasan Regency
Pamekasan Regency is a regency ''(kabupaten)'' of the province of East Java, Indonesia. It is located on Madura Island approximately east of Surabaya, the provincial capital.
The regency covers an area of , and at the 2010 census it had a popula ...
,
East Java
East Java ( id, Jawa Timur) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost hemisphere of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean bord ...
,
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 ...
. The town is located on the island of
Madura
Madura Island is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java. The island comprises an area of approximately (administratively 5,379.33 km2 including various smaller islands to the east, southeast and north that are administrati ...
.
Administrative villages
Pamekasan consists of 18
villages
A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...
(''Kelurahan'' or ''Desa'') namely:
* Barurambat Kota
* Bettet
* Bugih
* East Teja
* Gladak Anyar
* Jalmak
* Jungcangcang
* Kangenan
* Kolpajung
* Kowel
* Laden
* Nylabu Daya
* Nylabu Laok
* Panempan
* Parteker
* Patemon
* Toronan
* West Teja
Climate
Pamekasan has a
tropical savanna climate
Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry winter) and ''As'' (for a dry summer). The driest month has less than of p ...
(Aw) with moderate to little rainfall from May to November and heavy rainfall from December to April.
References
Madura Island
Districts of East Java
Populated places in East Java
Regency seats of East Java
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