Purwakarta Regency is a landlocked

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''(kabupaten)'' of

West Java West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten ...

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. The town of

Purwakarta Purwakarta (Dutch: Poerwakarta) is a district and town in West Java, Indonesia which serves as the regency seat of the Purwakarta Regency. It had a population of 165,447 at the 2010 Census,. rising to 179,233 at the 2020 Census. History Purwaka ...

is its capital. The area of the Regency is 971.72 km2, and it had a population of 852,521 in the 2010 Census and 997,869 in the 2020 Census, while the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 1,011,466 for a density of 1,040.9 people per km².

Administrative districts

The Purwakarta Regency is divided into seventeen districts (''kecamatan''), listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and 2020 Census, tgether with the official estimates as at mid 2021. The table also gives the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each distrioct, and its post code. The 192 villages comprise 183 classed as rural ''desa'' and 9 classed as urban ''kelurahan'' - the latter are 9 of the 10 villages in Purwakarta (town) District.

Toll Road Access

Harmoni Award 2016

Religion Ministry has awarded Harmoni Award 2016 to Purwakarta Regency due to religion tolerance in this area. It is the only one award from 10 awards across Indonesia, although

West Java Province West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten ...

is categorized by Setara Institute as the best of tolerance in Indonesia. West Java Province itself has got nothing.

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