Soppeng Regency is a landlocked regency in
South Sulawesi
South Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Selatan) is a province in the southern peninsula of Sulawesi. The Selayar Islands archipelago to the south of Sulawesi is also part of the province. The capital is Makassar. The province is bordered by Central Sula ...
province of
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
. Soppeng Regency has its seat of government (capital) in the town of
Watansoppeng
Watansoppeng is a town in South Sulawesi province of Indonesia and it is the capital of Soppeng Regency. This town is also popular as ''Kota Kalong'', which means megabat city. About 12,500 black Flying-foxes overhang on trees in city.
Charley Bo ...
, located 180 km from
Makassar
Makassar (, mak, ᨆᨀᨔᨑ, Mangkasara’, ) is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi. It is the largest city in the region of Eastern Indonesia and the country's fifth-largest urban center after Jakarta, Surabaya, Med ...
. The regency covers an area of 1,557 km
2, and had a population of 223,826 at the 2010 Census and 235,167 at the 2020 Census.
Administration
Soppeng Regency in 2020 (as in 2010) comprised eight administrative
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 Census and the 2020 Census.
[Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.] The table also includes the location of the district administrative centres, and the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district.
See also
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List of regencies and cities of Indonesia
Regencies (''kabupaten'') and cities (''kota'') are the second-level administrative subdivision in Indonesia, immediately below the provinces, and above the districts. Regencies are roughly equivalent to American counties, although most citi ...
References
External links
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Regencies of South Sulawesi
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