Simeulue Tengah (Central Simeulue) is a

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of the

Simeulue Regency Simeulue Regency ( id, Kabupaten Simeulue) is a regency in the Aceh special region of Indonesia. It occupies the whole island of Simeulue (Pulau Simeulue), 150 km off the west coast of Sumatra, with an area of . It had a population of 80,674 ...

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in the

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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 ...

. At the 2010 Census it had a total population of 9,010 people, living in 1,930 households in 2005. Following the splitting off of eight ''desa'' / ''kelurahan'' to form a separate Simeulue Cut district in 2012, the reduced Simeulue Tengah District covers 112.48 km² and had a population of 7,101 in 2014.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2018.

Administrative divisions

As at 2010, Simeulue Tengah was divided administratively into 24 ''desa'' / ''kelurahan''. However in 2012 eight of these were removed from the regency to form a new regency of Simeulue Cut. The remaining sixteen ''desa'' / ''kelurahan'' are: # Dihit # Kampung Aie # Kuta Batu # Lakubang # Lamayang # Lambaya # Latitik # Lauke # Lauree # Luan Sorip # Putra Jaya # Sebee # Situfa Jaya # Suak Baru # Wel Langkum # Wel Wel

References

Districts of Aceh {{Aceh-geo-stub