Central Lampung Regency is a

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of the province 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 ...

, on Sumatra,

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. It has an area of 4,545.50 km² and had a population of 1,170,048 people at the 2010 census and 1,460,045 at the 2020 census; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 1,477,395. The

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is the town of Gunung Sugih.

Administrative Districts

Central Lampung Regency consists of twenty-eight districts (''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census and 2020 census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2021. 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. Note: (a) includes the urban villages (''kelurahan'') of Bandar Jaya Barat, Bandar Jaya Timur, Yukum Jaya and Poncowati, all located to the north of Gunung Sugih.

History

In August 2009, a former senior regency official - Herman Hazbullah, former head of the Revenue and Financial Management Agency - was arrested for

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.Jakarta Post

References

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