South Labuhanbatu Regency (''Kabupaten Labuhanbatu Selatan'', alternatively ''Kabupaten Labuhan Batu Selatan'') is a

regency A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...

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 ...

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, created in 2007 by being carved out of the existing

Labuhanbatu Regency Labuhanbatu Regency (''Kabupaten Labuhanbatu'', alternatively ''Kabupaten Labuhan Batu'') is a regency of North Sumatra, Indonesia. Its seat is Rantau Prapat. It had an area of 9,322.5 km2 in 2000 (prior to the separation of the new North L ...

The new South Labuhanbatu Regency covers an area of 3,595.9 square kilometres and according to the 2010 census it had a population of 277,673, which rose to 314,094 at the 2020 Census. Its administrative headquarters are at Kotapinang.

Administrative districts

The regency is divided administratively into five

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(''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 CensusBiro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. and the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. The table also includes the location of the district centres.

References

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