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The Pangkajene and Islands Regency (

Indonesian Indonesian is anything of, from, or related to Indonesia, an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It may refer to: * Indonesians, citizens of Indonesia ** Native Indonesians, diverse groups of local inhabitants of the archipelago ** Indonesian ...

: ''Kabupaten Pangkajene dan Kepulauan'', usually shortened to ''Pangkep''), ( mak, ᨈᨀᨒᨑ, Pangkajè’ne’, ) 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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. The regency lies primarily on the mainland of Sulawesi's southern peninsula, but also includes the

Spermonde Islands The Spermonde Archipelago (also known as the Sangkarang or Pabbiring Archipelago) is a group of around 120 islands off the southwest coast of Sulawesi in Indonesia, located within the Coral Triangle, between the southern arc of Sulawesi and the St ...

(''Kepulauan Spermonde'') off the west coast of that peninsula, as well as other small islands further west and southwest. The principal town lies at Pangkajene on Sulawesi, but there are a series of further towns like Lejang, Labakkang, Bontobonto and Segeri proceeding northwards from Pangkajene along the Trans-Sulawesi Highway. The total land area is 1,112.29 km², and the population was 305,737 at the 2010 Census and 345,775 at the 2020 Census.

Administrative Districts

The Regency comprises thirteen administrative

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(''Kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at 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. The Regency includes four districts which cover 115 small islands off the west and south coasts of South Sulawesi Province. Liukang Tangaya comprises 55 islands off the south and southwest of Sulawesi; Liukang Tupabbiring and Liukang Tupabbiring Utara together comprise the 43

off the west coast of South Sulawesi; and Liukang Kalmas comprises 17 other islands more to the west of South Sulawesi.

Climate

Pangkajene has a

tropical monsoon climate An area of tropical monsoon climate (occasionally known as a sub-equatorial, tropical wet climate or a tropical monsoon and trade-wind littoral climate) is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification category ...

(Am) with moderate to little rainfall from June to October and heavy to very rainfall from November to May. The following climate data is for the town of Pangkajene.

References

Regencies of South Sulawesi {{SSulawesi-geo-stub