Resort in Ambarita, Samosir Regency Batak Toba House in Simanindo, Samosir Regency Tomok Market, Samosir Regency Samosir Regency is a regency in

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 ...

. The regency covers an area of 1,444.25 square kilometres and it had a population of 119,653 at the 2010 census and 136,441 at the 2020 Census. Its seat is the town of

Pangururan Pangururan is a town and a district of the same name in North Sumatra province of Indonesia and it is the seat (capital) of Samosir Regency, and the largest town on Samosir Island. Its population at the 2020 Census was 34,209.Badan Pusat Statistik ...

Administrative districts

The regency is divided administratively into nine

districts A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions o ...

(''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and the 2020 Census. 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. Six of the nine districts (''

kecamatan The term ''district'', in the context of Indonesia, refers to the third-level administrative subdivision, below regency or city. The local term ' is used in the majority of Indonesian areas, except in Papua, West Papua, and the Special Region of ...

'') within the regency are on the island of

Samosir Samosir, or Samosir Island, is a large volcanic island in Lake Toba, located in the north of the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Administratively, Samosir Island is governed as six of the nine districts within Samosir Regency. The lake and i ...

(which lies within

Lake Toba Lake Toba ( id, Danau Toba) ( Toba Batak: ᯖᯀᯬ ᯖᯬᯅ; romanized: ''Tao Toba'') is a large natural lake in North Sumatra, Indonesia, occupying the caldera of a supervolcano. The lake is located in the middle of the northern part of the ...

), while the others lie on the 'mainland' of Sumatra. * Samosir Island districts ** Onan Runggu ** Palipi ** Pangururan ** Ronggur Nihuta ** Simanindo ** Nainggolan * Mainland districts ** Sitio-tio ** Harian ** Sianjur Mula Mula However, a small part of Pangururan District lies on the mainland, cut off from the rest of the district by the canal.

Botanical Garden

2011: Samosir Regency with supervision from LIPI will build a 100 hectares Botanical Garden. It will finish 10 years later with cost predicted about Rp.73 billion ($8.6 million).

Geo park

A geopark worth Rp20 billion ($2.2 million) is expected to be created - beginning in mid-2012 - in cooperation with the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT). It has been proposed for incorporation into the world geo park network.

References

Regencies of North Sumatra {{NSumatra-geo-stub