Southwest Maluku Regency ( id, Kabupaten Maluku Barat Daya) 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 ...

of Maluku Province,

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 ...

. It comprises a number of islands and island groups in the south of the province, including (running from west to east) Lirang Island,

Wetar Wetar is a tropical island which belongs to the Indonesian province of Maluku and is the largest island of the Maluku Barat Daya Islands (literally ''Southwest Islands'') of the Maluku Islands. It lies east of the Lesser Sunda Islands, which i ...

Island (with almost half of the total land area of the regency),

Kisar Island Kisar, also known as ''Yotowawa'', is a small island in the Southwestern Moluccas in Indonesia, located to the northeast of Timor Island. Most of the island is included within the Southernmost Islands District ('' Kecamatan Pulau Pulau Terselatan ...

Romang Island Romang is an island, part of Barat Daya Islands in Indonesia, located at , east of Wetar Island. Alternate names in use are Roma, Romonu and Fataluku. It is included within the Terselatan Islands District (''Kecamatan Pulau-Pulau Terselatan'') with ...

, the Letti Islands, the Damer Islands, Mdona Hyera (formerly called the Sermata Islands) and the

Babar Islands The Babar Islands ''(''Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Babar)'' are located in Maluku Province, Indonesia between latitudes 7 degrees 31 minutes South to 8 degrees 13 minutes South and from longitudes 129 degrees 30 minutes East to 130 degrees 05 minute ...

. The administrative centre lies at

Tiakur Tiakur is a ''kelurahan'' and the regency seat of Southwest Maluku Regency in Maluku, Indonesia. The town was purposely built as the capital of the Southwest Maluku Regency following its creation in 2008. Tiakur formed as the result of a politic ...

Moa Island Moa Island, also called Banks Island, is an island of the Torres Strait Islands archipelago that is located north of Thursday Island, Queensland, Thursday Island in the Banks Channel of Torres Strait, Queensland, Australia. It is also a Subur ...

(in the Letti Islands), but the largest town is Wonreli (on Kisar Island).

Administrative Districts

As at 2010 the Southwest Maluku Regency was administratively composed of eight districts (''kecamatan''). But by 2015 the number of districts had increased to seventeen by the splitting of existing districts; Pulau Pulau Wetar (the Wetar Islands) has been divided into four districts - Wetar, Wetar Barat (West Wetar), Wetar Timur (East Wetar) and Wetar Utara (North Wetar); the other six newly created districts are Dawelor Dawera and Pulau Masela (Masela Island) formed from parts of Babar Timur District, Kepulauan Romang (Romang Islands) and Kisar Utara (North Kisar) formed from parts of Pulau Pulau Terselatan District, Pulau Lakor (Lakor Island) formed from part of Moa Lakor District, and Pulau Wetang (Wetang Island) formed from part of Pulau Pulau Babar District. The districts are formally grouped into three archipelagoes - the Terselatan Group (including Wetar, as well as Kisar and Romang Islands), the Lemola Group (Letti, Moa and Lakor) and the Babar Group (including the Damer and Sermata Islands). The areas (in km²) and the populations at the 2010 census and 2020 census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2021,Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2022. are listed below. The table also includes the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its post code. Notes:
(a) the 2010 populations for the four districts which comprised Pulau Pulau Wetar District are listed under the first district.
(b) the 2010 populations of Kisar Utara and Kepulauan Romang Districts are included under the figure for Pulau Pulau Terselatan District, from which they were split off.
(c) the 2010 population of Lakor District is included in the figure for Moa Lakor District, from which it was split off.
(d) the 2010 population of Pulau Wetang District is included in the figure for Pulau Pulau Babar District, from which it was split off.
(e) the 2010 populations of Pulau Masela and Daweloor Dawera Districts are included under the figure for Babar Timur District, from which they were split off.

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