Way Kanan Regency is a
regency
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(''kabupaten'') of
Lampung
Lampung ( Lampung: ), officially the Province of Lampung ( id, Provinsi Lampung) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the southern tip of the island of Sumatra. It has a short border with the province of Bengkulu to the northwest, and ...
Province,
Sumatra,
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 ...
. It has an area of 3,921.63 km
2 and had a population of 406,735 at the 2010 census and 493,575 at the 2020 census. The administrative centre lies at the town of
Blambangan Umpu.
Administrative districts
The regency is divided into fourteen districts (''
kecamatan
The term ''district'', in the context of Indonesia, refers to the third-level administrative subdivision, below regency or city. The local term ' is used in the majority of Indonesian areas, except in Papua, West Papua, and the Special Region o ...
)'', listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census and the 2020 census.
[Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.]
References
Regencies of Lampung
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