West Tanjung Jabung 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 ...

of Jambi Province,

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. It is located on the island of Sumatra. The regency has an area of 5,009.82 km² and had a population of 278,741 as at the 2010 census and 317,498 at the 2020 census. The

regency seat A regency seat ( id, Ibu kota kabupaten) is an capital or seat of government of a regency in Indonesia. It is roughly equivalent of county seat in the United States or county town in the United Kingdom. Legally, regency seats are not administrati ...

is Kuala Tungkal.

Administrative districts

The regency is divided into thirteen districts (''

kecamatan The term ''district'', in the context of Indonesia, refers to the third-level administrative subdivision, below regency or city. The local term ' is used in the majority of Indonesian areas, except in Papua, West Papua, and the Special Region o ...

''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census and the 2020 census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, and the number of administrative villages (rural '' desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district.

References

External links

Official site
Regencies of Jambi {{Jambi-geo-stub