Alor Regency ( id, Kabupaten Alor) is a

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(''kabupaten'') in

East Nusa Tenggara East Nusa Tenggara ( id, Nusa Tenggara Timur – NTT; pt, Sonda Oriental) is the southernmost province of Indonesia. It comprises the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, facing the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in the nor ...

(NTT) province of

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. Established in 1958, Alor Regency administers the Alor Archipelago with its seat (capital) in

Kalabahi Kalabahi is a town on Alor Island and it is the capital of Alor Regency in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. The town possesses the only puskesmas available in the district, in west Kalabahi. It covers 4 ''kelurahan'' (villages) of the Tel ...

Alor Island Alor ( id, Pulau Alor) is the largest island in the Alor Archipelago and is one of the 92 officially listed outlying islands of Indonesia. It is located at the eastern Lesser Sunda Islands that runs through southeastern Indonesia, which from ...

. Alor Regency occupies 2,928.88 km² land area and 10,973.62 km² water area. There are seventeen islands in the archipelago, of which the largest by far are Alor itself and Pantar; there are another six inhabited islands (including Pura, Treweng, Kepa, Buaya, Kangge and Kura); the remaining nine islands (Sika, Nub, Kapas, Batang, Lapang, Ternate, Rusa, Tikus and Kambing) are uninhabited. To the east lies the island of ( Atauro), part of the Republic of

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. Pantar and Alor Islands are separated by a wide strait with Pulau Buaya and Pulau Kambing at its northern point, Pulau Pura in the middle, and Pulau Treweng at its southern point. The regency had 190,026 inhabitants at the 2010 decennial census; at the 2030 census this had risen to 211,872; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 213,994. The main transportation access in the regency is by means of

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. The state-owned PELNI sea liners operate in the archipelago for major transport to the main port hub in Kalabahi beside small boats operating between small islands. A small Perintis Mali airstrip (18 km east of Kalabahi) can only be used by small CASA airplanes, operated by

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. As is the case in other parts of NTT province, the provision of education is often a major problem, especially in remote areas. In recent years, the district (regency) government has been trying to make it easier for children to attend school by, amongst other things, increasing the number of one-roof junior high schools. The standard of teaching is often also a major problem because many teachers lack proper qualifications.

Administration

At the 2010 Census the regency was divided into seventeen

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(''kecamatan''), but an eighteenth distric was created in 2020 from the division of the Alor Barat Daya District. All eighteen districts are 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 villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its post code. Notes: (a) includes just the northern part of Pantar Island. (b) includes offshore islands of Pulau Kura and uninhabited Batang and Lapang. (c) includes offshore Pulau Treweng.
(d) includes offshore islands of Pulau Kangge and uninhabited Kambing, Rusa and Tikus. (e) the 2010 population of the new Abad Selatan District is included with the figure
for Alor Barat Daya District, from which it was subsequently split off in 2020. (f) containing the town of

, plus uninhabited Pulau Kapas.
(g) includes the uninhabited offshore islands of Sika and Nub. (h) apart from villages of Alila Timur and Lawahing (which have a postcode of 85851}.
(i) includes the offshore islands of Pulau Kepa, Pulau Buaya and uninhabited Pulau Ternate. (j) Pura island lies in the middle of the strait which separates Pantar and Alor Islands.

References

External links

* * Van Galen's memorandum on the Alor Island

East Nusa Tenggara Regencies of East Nusa Tenggara {{ENusaTenggara-geo-stub