Sampang Regency is a

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( id, kabupaten) of

East Java East Java ( id, Jawa Timur) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost hemisphere of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean bord ...

province,

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. It is situated on

Madura Island Madura Island is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java. The island comprises an area of approximately (administratively 5,379.33 km2 including various smaller islands to the east, southeast and north that are administrati ...

, bordering on

Pamekasan Regency Pamekasan Regency is a regency ''(kabupaten)'' of the province of East Java, Indonesia. It is located on Madura Island approximately east of Surabaya, the provincial capital. The regency covers an area of , and at the 2010 census it had a popula ...

to the east, the Java Sea to the north,

Bangkalan Regency Bangkalan Regency is a regency ( id, kabupaten) of East Java province in Indonesia. The seat of its government is Bangkalan. The regency is located on the west side of Madura Island, bordering with Sampang Regency to the east, Java Sea to the nor ...

to the west and

Madura Strait Madura Strait is a stretch of water that separates the Indonesian islands of Java and Madura, in the province of East Java. The islands of Kambing, Giliraja, Genteng, and Ketapang lie in the Strait. The Suramadu Bridge, the longest in Indones ...

to the south. It covers an area of 1,233.3 km², and had a population at the 2010 census of 877,772 and at the 2020 census of 969,694. The administrative centre is the port of Sampang, on the south coast of Madura.

Administrative Districts

Sampang Regency consists of fourteen

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( id, 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 location of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its post code. Note: (a) Sampang District includes the small island of Pulau Mandangin, off the south coast of Madura.

References

External links

Regencies of East Java Madura Island {{EJava-geo-stub