West Sumbawa Regency ( id, Kabupaten Sumbawa Barat) is a Regency ('' Kabupaten'') of 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 ...

n Province of

West Nusa Tenggara West Nusa Tenggara ( id, Nusa Tenggara Barat – NTB) is a province of Indonesia. It comprises the western portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the exception of Bali which is its own province. Mataram, on Lombok, is the capital and largest ...

. It is located on the island of

Sumbawa Sumbawa is an Indonesian island, located in the middle of the Lesser Sunda Islands chain, with Lombok to the west, Flores to the east, and Sumba further to the southeast. Along with Lombok, it forms the province of West Nusa Tenggara, but there ...

and has an area of 1,742.27 km². The regency was created on 18 December 2003 from what were at that time the westernmost five districts (''kecamatan'') of Sumbawa Regency. The population at the 2010 Census was 114,754, and at the 2020 Census was 145,798 - comprising 73,687 males and 72,111 females; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 148,458. The capital is the town of

Taliwang Taliwang is the regency seat of West Sumbawa Regency, on the western coast of the island of Sumbawa. It is the fifth largest town on the island of Sumbawa, with a population of 44,136 at the 2010 Census and 55,340 at the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat St ...

Poto Tano, the most important harbour of West Sumbawa, is easily accessible by ferry from

Lombok Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It forms part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa to the east. It is rou ...

Administrative Districts

West Sumbawa Regency originally comprised five

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 ...

(''kecamatan'') formerly part of Sumbawa Regency, but now consists of eight districts, tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2021.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2022. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its postal codes. The 64 villages comprise 57 rural (''desa'') and 7 urban (''kelurahan''), the latter all in Taliwang District.

References

* Regencies of West Nusa Tenggara Sumbawa {{WNusaTenggara-geo-stub