South Bangka 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 ...

(''kabupaten'') of

Bangka Belitung Islands The Bangka Belitung Islands ( id, Kepulauan Bangka Belitung) is a province of Indonesia. Situated off the southeastern coast of Sumatra, the province comprises two main landmasses— Bangka and Belitung—and numerous smaller islands. Bangka Beli ...

Province, Indonesia, with the town of

Toboali Toboali () is a town in the Indonesian province of Bangka-Belitung, Indonesia. Toboali is the capital of the South Bangka Regency. Economy Significant numbers of the townspeople are employed in pepper cultivation. In the New Order era, tin mi ...

as its regency seat. It also includes several small islands off the coast of Bangka in the Gaspar Strait, such as Lepar and Pongok. The regency covers an area of 3,607.08 km² and had a population of 172,476 at the 2010 Census and 198,189 at the 2020 Census.

Administrative Districts

At the time of the 2010 Census, the Regency was divided into seven districts (''kecamatan''), but in 2013 an eighth district was added by the splitting of the Lepar Pongok District into separate districts based on

Lepar Island Lepar ( Indonesian: ''Pulau Lepar'') is an island in Indonesia, located off the southeastern coast of Bangka. Administratively part of South Bangka in Bangka Belitung province, it is the third-largest island in the province after its much larger ...

and

Pongok Island Pongok (Indonesian language, Indonesian: ''Pulau Pongok''), sometimes known as Liat, is an Indonesian island which is part of the Pongok Islands District of the South Bangka Regency, Bangka Belitung Province. It comprises over 95% of the district's ...

. the districts are tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. The table also includes the numbers of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its postal code. Notes: (a) includes 3 offshore islands. (b) includes 6 offshore islands. (c) includes 22 offshore islands. (d) Lepar Pongok and Kepulauan Pongok Districts between them include 28 offshore islands. (e) the population of Kepulauan Pongok District for 2010 is included with the figure for Lepar Pongok District, from which it was cut out in 2013. Note that the residual Lepar Pongok District has not altered its name, even though it no longer contains Pongok Island.

References

External links

* Regencies of Bangka Belitung Islands {{BangkaBelitung-geo-stub