Pidie Regency (also known as: Pidie, Pědir; "king of"; id, Kabupaten Pidie) is a regency of

Aceh Aceh ( ), officially the Aceh Province ( ace, Nanggroë Acèh; id, Provinsi Aceh) is the westernmost province of Indonesia. It is located on the northernmost of Sumatra island, with Banda Aceh being its capital and largest city. Granted a s ...

Special region, in

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. It is located in the north of the island of

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

, in Western Indonesia, bordered by the

Malacca Strait The Strait of Malacca is a narrow stretch of water, 500 mi (800 km) long and from 40 to 155 mi (65–250 km) wide, between the Malay Peninsula (Peninsular Malaysia) to the northeast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southwest, conne ...

and Pidie Jaya Regency (which was formerly a part of Pidie Regency until it was separated out in 2007) in the north,

Aceh Besar Great Aceh Regency ( id, Kabupaten Aceh Besar) is a regency of the Indonesian province of Aceh. The regency covers an area of 2,903.49 square kilometres and had a population of 351,418 at the 2010 Census and 405,535 at the 2020 Census; the offic ...

Regency in the west, Bireuen Regency in the northeast, and Aceh Jaya Regency in the south. The regency covers an area of 3,184.45 square kilometres and had a population of 379,108 people at the 2010 Census and 435,275 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 439,398. Pidie was the largest rice-producing area of Aceh province, producing some 20% of its total output. People from Pidie control various markets in Aceh special region, in the neighbouring province of

North Sumatra North Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Utara) is a province of Indonesia located on the northern part of the island of Sumatra. Its capital and largest city is Medan. North Sumatra is Indonesia's fourth most populous province after West Java, East Java and ...

(specifically its

Medan Medan (; English: ) is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra, as well as a regional hub and financial centre of Sumatra. According to the National Development Planning Agency, Medan is one of the four main ...

City), and in the neighboring country of Malaysia.

Administrative divisions

The regency is divided administratively into twenty-three

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(''kecamatan''), listed 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 also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages (''desa'' and ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its post code.

Notable people

Zaini Abdullah Zaini Abdullah (born 24 April 1940) is an Indonesian politician and former separatist activist of the Free Aceh Movement (or GAM, ''Gerakan Aceh Merdeka'') in Indonesia who was elected as the governor of the province of Aceh in the 2012 electi ...

(governor of Aceh 2013 - 2018). * Teungku Chik di Tiro (Indonesian National Hero). *

Daud Beureueh Teungku Mohammad Daud Beureueh (17 September 1899 – 10 June 1987) was the military Governor of Aceh (1945–1953) and leader of the Darul Islam rebellion in the province (1953–1963). Born in the Keumangan chiefdom of Pidie regency, he bega ...

(Military Governor of aceh). *

Teuku Mohammad Hasan Teuku Mohammad Hasan ( EVO: Teoekoe Moehammad Hasan; 4 April 1906 – 21 September 1997) was an Indonesian politician and national hero from Aceh, who served as the first and only governor of Sumatra from 1945 until 1948. He also served as a cabi ...

(The first governor of Sumatra). *

Ibrahim Hasan Ibrahim Hassan Hussein ( ar, إبراهيم حسن حسين; born 10 August 1966) is an Egyptian former professional football player who played as a right back. Ibrahim Hassan has well over 100 caps for Egypt. His twin brother Hossam also playe ...

(former governor of Aceh and Former Minister for Food). * Hasballah M Saad (Former minister of indonesian human rights). *

Hasan Tiro Hasan Muhammad di Tiro, M.S, M.A, LL.D, Ph.D. (25 September 1925 – 3 June 2010), born Hasan Bin Leube Muhammad, was the founder of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), an organisation which attempted to separate Aceh from Indonesia from the 1970s. I ...

(Founder and command center of GAM). *

Sanusi Juned Sanusi may refer to: Dynasty * the Senussi tribe, a Sufi order and Libyan dynasty, also spelled Sanusi * Sayyid Muhammad ibn Ali as-Senussi, founder of the above dynasty Family name * Muhammadu Sanusi, Emir of Kano from 1953 to 1963, grandfath ...

(Former chief minister of Malaysian). *

Ismail Hassan Metareum Ishmael ''Ismaḗl''; Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْمَٰعِيْل; Modern Standard Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل ''ʾIsmāʿīl''; la, Ismael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions; and is cons ...

(Party chairman and Advisory specially Indonesian delegation to the UN). *

Ibrahim Risjad Ibrahim ( ar, إبراهيم, links=no ') is the Arabic name for Abraham, a Biblical patriarch and prophet in Islam. For the Islamic view of Ibrahim, see Abraham in Islam. Ibrahim may also refer to: * Ibrahim (name), a name (and list of people w ...

or Richard (influential businessmen in Indonesian). *

Teuku Iskandar Teuku Iskandar (14 October 1924 – 5 September 2012) was an Indonesian scholar, literary critic and lexicographer. Life and career In 1950, Iskandar graduated from Leiden University, in 1955 he defended his doctoral thesis on the ''Hikayat ...

(scholar, one of the founders of Syiah Kuala University Aceh).

References

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