Landak Regency is a

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West Kalimantan West Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Barat) is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five Indonesian provinces comprising Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Its capital city is Pontianak. The province has an area of 147,307&nbs ...

province,

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. It was created in 1999 from the northeastern part of Pontianak Regency. It covers 9,909.10 km² and had a population of 329,649 at the 2010 Census and 397,610 at the 2020 Census. The principal town lies at Ngabang. Landak is also one of the four regencies in West Kalimantan whose population is predominantly

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, the others being Sanggau, Sekadau, and Sintang.

Administrative Districts

Landak Regency consists of thirteen

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(''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2020. The table also includes the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district and its post code.

Climate

Ngabang, the seat of the regency has a

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(Af) with heavy rainfall year-round.

References

Regencies of West Kalimantan {{WKalimantan-geo-stub