Mempawah Regency (formerly the Pontianak Regency) is a

regency A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...

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 of

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 Gui ...

. Since 2007 it covers 1,276.90 km², and had a population of 234,021 at the 2010 Census and 301,560 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 305,673. The principal town lies at Mempawah.

History

Based on Government Regulation No. 58 of 2014 (''Peraturan Pemerintah Nomor 58 Tahun 2014''), Pontianak Regency was formally renamed Mempawah Regency.

Administrative Districts

Since the separation of the southern parts of the former Pontianak Regency on 17 July 2007 to form the new

Kubu Raya Regency Kubu Raya Regency or Great Kubu Regency is a Regencies of Indonesia, regency of West Kalimantan, Indonesia. It was created on 17 July 2007 from the (larger) central and southern part of Pontianak Regency. It covers an area of 6,985.24 km2, an ...

, the residual area - in 2014 renamed as Mempawah Regency - consists of nine

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(''kecamatan''), 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. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its post code.

Gallery

File:LOGO KABUPATEN PONTIANAK.png, Emblem of the former Pontianak Regency (1963-2014). To prevent confusion with

Pontianak City Pontianak or Khuntien is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan, founded first as a trading port on the island of Borneo, occupying an area of 118.31 km2 in the delta of the Kapuas River at a point where it is joined by ...

and the creation of

Landak Regency Landak Regency is a regency of West Kalimantan province, Indonesia. 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 Cen ...

and

from its territory, the residual part of this regency was in 2014 renamed as Mempawah Regency.

References

Regencies of West Kalimantan {{WKalimantan-geo-stub