Pringsewu Regency is a

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Lampung Lampung (Lampung: ), officially the Province of Lampung ( id, Provinsi Lampung) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southern tip of the island of Sumatra. It has a short border with the province of Bengkulu to the northwest, and a ...

Province,

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. It has an area of 625 km² and had a population of 364,825 people at the 2010 Census and 405,466 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 406,823. The

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is the town of Pringsewu, located 37 kilometres from the provincial capital of

Bandar Lampung Bandar Lampung (Lampung language, Lampung: , ''Kutak Bandarlampung'', formerly Dutch language, Dutch: ''Oosthaven'', lit. "Eastern Harbor") is the capital city, capital and largest city of the Indonesian Provinces of Indonesia, province of Lampun ...

. The regency was created on 29 October 2008 from the former eastern part of

Tanggamus Regency Tanggamus Regency is a regency (''kabupaten'') of Lampung Province, Sumatra, Indonesia. It has an area of 4,654.96 km² and had a population of 534,595 at the 2010 Census and 640,275 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was ...

. The regency name came from

Javanese language Javanese (, , ; , Aksara Jawa: , Pegon: , IPA: ) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by the Javanese people from the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, Indonesia. There are also pockets of Javanese speakers on the northe ...

terms "Thousand (''sewu'')

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(''pring'')", as the location of the town was once a bamboo forest.

Administrative districts

Administratively at 2010 the regency was divided into eight districts (''

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''). However, since 2010 a ninth district (Pangelaran Utara) has been created from part of the existing Pangelaran District, bringing the total to nine districts. Each district has the same name as the district's administrative centre. These 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.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2022. The table also includes the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district and its post code. Note: (a) the 2010 population for the new Pangelaran Utara District is included with the figure for Pangelaran District, from which it was separated.

References

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