South Minahasa Regency is a

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North Sulawesi North Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the Minahasa Peninsula of Sulawesi, south of the Philippines and southeast of Sabah, Malaysia. It borders the Philippine province of Davao Occidental and Socc ...

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 ...

. Its capital is Amurang. It covers an area of 1,456.46 km², and had a population of 195,553 at the 2010 Census; this had risen to 236,463 at the 2020 Census. It was originally part of the

Minahasa Regency Minahasa Regency is a regency in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its capital is Tondano. It covers an area of 1,141.64 km2 and had a population of 310,384 at the 2010 Census; this rose to 347,290 at the 2020 Census. Several cities and regencies r ...

until it was established as a separate regency on 25 February 2003. In turn, a Southeast Minahasa Regency was established as a separate regency from part of the South Minahasa Regency on 2 January 2007.

Administration

The regency is divided into seventeen districts (''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and population totals from the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. The table also includes the location of the administrative centre and the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its postal codes. Notes: (a) including 4 small offshore islands.

Climate

Amurang, the seat of the regency has a

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(Af) with moderate rainfall from July to September and heavy rainfall in the remaining months.

References

Regencies of North Sulawesi {{NSulawesi-geo-stub