West Tulang Bawang Regency ( id, Kabupaten Tulung Bawang Barat) is a

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 ...

(''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,

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. It has an area of 1,201.15 km² and had a population of 250,707 people at the 2010 Census and 286,162 at the 2020 Census. The

regency seat A regency seat ( id, Ibu kota kabupaten) is an capital or seat of government of a regency in Indonesia. It is roughly equivalent of county seat in the United States or county town in the United Kingdom. Legally, regency seats are not administrati ...

is the town of Panaragan Jaya.

Administrative districts

At the time of the 2010 Census the Regency comprised eight districts (''kecamatan''), but subsequently a ninth district - Batu Putih - was created from part of Gunung Terang District. The districts are listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. Note: the 2010 population of Batu Putih District was included in the figure for Gunung Terang District, from which it was subsequently cut out.

References

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