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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 ...

is one of the regencies in the

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 ...

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or sovereign state, state. The term derives from the ancient Roman ''Roman province, provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire ...

South Kalimantan South Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Selatan) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia. It is the smallest province in Kalimantan, the Indonesian territory of Borneo. The provincial capital was Banjarmasin until 15 February 2022 when it wa ...

, on

Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and eas ...

island. It has an area of 3,766.97 km², and had a population at the 2010 Census of 218,620; the latest official estimate (as at mid 2019) was 254,322. The administrative capital is the town of Tanjung. Motto: "Saraba Kawa" ( Banjarese).

Administrative division

The Regency is divided into twelve

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 ...

( id, kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and population totals from the 2010 Census and the official estimates for mid 2018.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2020. The table also includes the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its postal codes. Notes: (a) except the village of Sungai Durian (postcode of 72167). (a) except the town of Tanjung (postcode of 71513) and the villages of Jangkung (postcode of 71512) and Agung (postcode of 71514).

References

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* Regencies of South Kalimantan {{SKalimantan-geo-stub