Waropen Regency is one of the regencies (''kabupaten'') in

Papua Province Papua is a province of Indonesia, comprising the northern coast of Western New Guinea together with island groups in Cenderawasih Bay to the west. It roughly follows the borders of Papuan customary region of Tabi Saireri. It is bordered by the ...

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. The Regency covers an area of 10,847.97 km², and it had a population of 24,639 at the 2010 Census and 33,943 at the 2020 Census. The official estimate as at mid 2021 was 34,414. The capital is the town of . Originally, this area comprised those districts of the former Yapen Waropen Regency which lay on the Papuan mainland, but that regency was split in two on 12 November 2002, to form the Waropen Regency on the Papuan mainland and the

Yapen Islands Regency Yapen Islands Regency is a regency (''kabupaten'') in Papua Province of eastern Indonesia. It covers an area of , and had a population of 82,951 at the 2010 Census and 112,676 at the 2020 Census. The official estimate as at mid 2021 was 114,210. I ...

consisting of

Yapen Yapen (also Japan, Jobi) is an island of Papua, Indonesia. The Yapen Strait separates Yapen and the Biak Islands to the north. It is in Cenderawasih Bay off the north-western coast of the island of New Guinea. To the west is Mios Num Island ...

Island and some smaller islands in

Cenderawasih Bay Cenderawasih Bay ( id, Teluk Cenderawasih, "Bird of Paradise Bay"), also known as Sarera Bay ( id, Teluk Sarera) and formerly Geelvink Bay ( nl, Geelvinkbaai), is a large bay in northern Province of Papua, Central Papua and West Papua, New Guin ...

. The languages of the East Geelvink Bay family that is Waropen language are spoken in the regency. While the main ethnic groups that inhabit this regency are the

Waropen people The Waropen or also called Wonti is an ethnic group that inhabits coastal areas in northern Papua, especially in Waropen Regency and several surrounding areas especially Upper Waropen in Mamberamo Raya Regency. People of the Waropen communicate ...

, and the

Biak Biak is an island located in Cenderawasih Bay near the northern coast of Papua (province), Papua, an Indonesian province, and is just northwest of New Guinea. Biak is the largest island in its small archipelago, and has many atolls, reefs, and c ...

who generally inhabit coastal areas.

Administrative Districts

At the 2010 Census, Waropen Regency comprised ten

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(''distrik''), but subsequently two additional districts have been created - Soyoi Mambai and Wonti. The twelve districts are tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and as officially estimated in mid 2021.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2022. The table also includes the location of the district administrative centres. Note: (a) the 2010 populations of Soyoi Mambai and Wonti Districts are included with the population of the districts (Risei Sayati and Demba) from which they were subsequently cut out.

Climate

Botawa, the seat of the regency has a

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(Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

References

External links

Statistics publications from Statistics Indonesia (BPS)
Regencies of Papua (province) {{Papua-geo-stub