North Minahasa Regency is a

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North Sulawesi North Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the Minahasa Peninsula of Sulawesi, south of the Philippines and southeast of Sabah, Malaysia. It borders the Philippine province of Davao Occidental and Soccsks ...

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 ...

. Its capital is

Airmadidi Airmadidi is the capital of the North Minahasa Regency, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Airmadidi is home to Universitas Klabat (Klabat University). There is also a well known Airmadidi market. Airmadidi means boiling water and the area is home to m ...

. It was originally part of the

Minahasa Regency Minahasa Regency is a regency in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. Its capital is Tondano. It covers an area of 1,141.64 km2 and had a population of 310,384 at the 2010 Census; this rose to 347,290 at the 2020 Census. Several cities and regencies r ...

until it was established as a separate regency on 20 November 2003. It covers an area of 1,059.24 km², and had a population of 188,904 at the 2010 Census; this had risen to 224,993 at the 2020 Census. The Regency includes the offshore islands of Bangka (''Pulau Bangka'') and Talisei (''Pulau Talise'') to the north of Sulawesi, and Mantenang (''Pulau Mantehage'') and Naeng Besar (''Pulau Nain Besar'') to the northwest.

Administration

The regency is divided into ten

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(''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations from the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik Sulawesi Utara, 2021. The table also includes the location of the administrative centre and the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its postal codes. Notes: (a) including 10 small offshore islands. (b) including offshore islands of Mantehage, Nain Besar, Nain Kecil, Bulu, Makelehi and Paniki to the west. (c) including offshore islands of Talisei, Kelapa Dua and 10 smaller to the north. (d) including offshore islands of Bangka and 18 smaller to the north.

References

Regencies of North Sulawesi {{NSulawesi-geo-stub