Aileu District

Aileu
Aileu
	District
	River in Aileu
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	Coordinates: 8°43′S125°34′E / 8.717°S 125.567°E Coordinates: 8°43′S125°34′E / 8.717°S 125.567°E
Country	East Timor
Capital	Aileu
Subdistricts	Aileu, Laulara, Lequidoe, Remexio
Area
• Total	737 km2 (285 sq mi)
Area rank	9th
Population (2015 census)
• Total	48,837
• Rank	12th
• Density	66/km2 (170/sq mi)
• Density rank	8th
Households (2015 census)
• Total	7,598
• Rank	13th
Time zone	TLT (UTC+09:00)
ISO 3166 code	TL-AL

Last updated March 06, 2019

Aileu is an administrative district of East Timor. Aileu Municipality has a population of 48,554 (Census 2015) and an area of 737 km².^[1] The capital of the district is also named Aileu. The subdistricts are Aileu Vila, Laulara, Lequidoe and Remexio.

East Timor or Timor-Leste, officially the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, is a country in Maritime Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island surrounded by Indonesian West Timor. Australia is the country's southern neighbour, separated by the Timor Sea. The country's size is about 15,410 km².

Aileu is the main township in Aileu District, East Timor. It is located 47 km southwest of Dili, the national capital, and had a population of 2,788 in 2015. In Portuguese Timor, the city was known as Vila General Carmona, after the Portuguese dictator António Óscar Carmona, but after World War II it was renamed. Aileu means "bent tree" in Mambai.

Aileu is in the northwestern part of East Timor and is one of only two landlocked districts, the other being Ermera. It borders Dili to the north, Manatuto to the east, Manufahi to the southeast, Ainaro to the south, Ermera to the west, and Liquiçá to the northwest. It was formerly part of the district of Dili but was split in the final years of Portuguese administration.

Development

As part of the Timor-Leste Government decentralization program the former District of Aileu is now organised as the Municipality of Aileu, headed by a Municipal Administrator. The four subdistricts are now organised as Administrative Posts. Aileu is the focus of several development programmes from NGOs, including WaterAid,^[2] World Vision^[3] and Plan International.^[4] In May 2000 the Hume City Council and Moreland City Council and the communities in Melbourne Australia, established a friendship relationship with the Aileu Distrist, called "Friends of Aileu". The friendship relationship has been renewed periodically, with the signing of updated Friendship Agreements in 2005, 2010 and 2016.^[5] and ^[6]

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia and Oceania. Its name refers to an urban agglomeration of 9,992.5 km² (3,858.1 sq mi), comprising a metropolitan area with 31 municipalities, and is also the common name for its city centre. The city occupies much of the coastline of Port Phillip bay and spreads into the hinterlands towards the Dandenong and Macedon ranges, Mornington Peninsula and Yarra Valley. It has a population of approximately 4.9 million, and its inhabitants are referred to as "Melburnians".

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the largest country in Oceania and the world's sixth-largest country by total area. The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east; and New Zealand to the south-east. The population of 25 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard. Australia's capital is Canberra, and its largest city is Sydney. The country's other major metropolitan areas are Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide.

Administrative divisions

Aileu Vila Subdistrict (place of capital)
Laulara Subdistrict
Lequidoe Subdistrict
Remexio Subdistrict

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Ainaro is one of 13 municipalities of East Timor, in the southwest part of the country. It has a population of 59,175 and an area of 804 km². Its capital is the city of Ainaro, a small mountain town.

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[1] ttp://www.statistics.gov.tl/preliminary-results-population-and-housing-census-2015/

[2] ttp://www.wateraid.org/australia/what_we_do/where_we_work/timorleste/4211.asp

[3] ttp://timorleste.wvasiapacific.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=section&id=13&Itemid=95

[4] ttp://www.plan.org.au/ourwork/asia/easttimor/water-sanitation-hygeine

[5] ttp://www.moreland.vic.gov.au/community-services/friendship-cities/friends-of-aileu/about-friends-of-aileu.html

[6] ttps://www.facebook.com/friendsofaileu/

Aileu District

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Development

Administrative divisions

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