North Toraja (or Toraja Utara) is a landlocked regency (''

kabupaten A regency ( id, kabupaten), sometimes incorrectly referred to as a district, is an administrative division of Indonesia, directly under a province and on the same level with city (''kota''). Regencies is divided into districts (''Kecamatan'', '' ...

'') of

South Sulawesi South Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Selatan) is a province in the southern peninsula of Sulawesi. The Selayar Islands archipelago to the south of Sulawesi is also part of the province. The capital is Makassar. The province is bordered by Central Sul ...

Province of

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, and the home of the

Toraja The Torajans are an ethnic group indigenous people, indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Their population is approximately 1,100,000, of whom 450,000 live in the List of regencies and cities of Indonesia, regency of ...

ethnic group. The local government seat is in

Rantepao Rantepao is a town and capital of North Toraja Regency, which is known for the cultural center of Toraja ethnic group. National and regional tourism offices have developed the city as the starting point for visiting Tana Toraja, since the area ...

which is also the center of Toraja culture. Formerly this regency was part of Tana Toraja Regency, but in 2008 was split off to form a separate Regency. It covers an area of 1,151.47 km² and had a population of 216,762 at the 2010 census and 261,086 at the 2020 census, comprising 133,335 males and 127,751 females. The Tana Toraja boundary was determined by the

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government in 1909. In 1926, Tana Toraja was under the administration of

Bugis The Bugis people (pronounced ), also known as Buginese, are an ethnicity—the most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi (the others being Makassar and Toraja), in the south-western province of Sulawesi ...

state,

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. The ''regentschap'' (or regency) status was given on 8 October 1946, the last regency given by the Dutch. Since 1984, Tana Toraja has been named as the second

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after Bali by the Ministry of Tourism, Indonesia. Since then, hundreds of thousands of foreign visitors have visited this regency. In addition, numerous Western

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have come to Tana Toraja to study the indigenous

Torajan people The Torajans are an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Their population is approximately 1,100,000, of whom 450,000 live in the regency of Tana Toraja ("Land of Toraja"). Most of the population is ...

and their culture.

Geography

Tana Toraja is located on the Sulawesi island, 300 km north of Makassar, the provincial capital of South Sulawesi. Its geographical location is between latitude of 2°-3° South and longitude 119°-120° East (center: ). The area of the new North Toraja Regency is 1,151.47 km², about 2.5% of the total area of South Sulawesi province. The topography of Tana Toraja is mountainous; its minimum elevation is 150 m, while the maximum is 3,083 above the sea level.

Administrative Districts

North Toraja Regency in 2020 comprised twenty-one administrative Districts (''Kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census and the 2020 censusBadan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. The table also includes the location of the district administrative centre, and the number of administrative villages (111 rural ''desa'' - here called ''lembang'' - and 40 urban ''kelurahan'') in each district.

References

External links

Toraja Treasures.com
- Toraja online information. * {{South Sulawesi * Regencies of South Sulawesi Torajan people

Geography

Administrative Districts

See also

References

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