List of regencies and districts of South Sulawesi

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The Districts of South Sulawesi are the administrative divisions of South Sulawesi, a province of Indonesia that is made up of 21 regencies (kabupaten) and 3 independent cities (kota), which are both in turn divided into districts called Kecamatan.

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Five years after independence, the government issued Law No. 21 of 1950, which became the basis of the legal establishment for what was then the Sulawesi province. Ten years later, the government passed Law No. 47 of 1960 which endorsed the formation of the South/Southeast Sulawesi province. Four years after that, with Act No. 13 of 1964, the provinces of South Sulawesi and Southeast Sulawesi were separated. Forty years later, the South Sulawesi government was split into two, with the regencies of Majene, Mamasa, Mamuju, Pasangkayu, and Polewali Mandar having been separated off to form a new West Sulawesi province on 5 October 2004 under Act No. 26 of 2004.

Regencies and cities

The South Sulawesi Province is composed of two major regions. The first - the southern half - consists of the southern peninsula itself and comprises sixteen regencies plus the independent cities of Makassar and Parepare. The second - the more mountainous and less densely populated northern half - now comprises five regencies plus the independent city of Palopo.

Three new regencies and a city have been created in this northern half since the establishment of the province. A new regency (Luwu Utara) was created on 20 April 1999 from the northern part of the existing Luwu Regency; a new city (Palopo) was created on 10 April 2002 from a further part of Luwu Regency; and on 25 February 2003 another regency (Luwu Timur) was formed from the eastern half of the Luwu Utara Regency. Following the splitting away of part (five regencies) of the province to form a separate West Sulawesi Province in 2004, the remaining South Sulawesi Province was divided into twenty regencies (kabupaten) and three independent cities (kota), but a twenty-first regency (Toraja Utara) was formed on 24 June 2008 from the northern half of Tana Toraja Regency.

These regencies and cities are listed below with their areas and their populations as of the 2010 Census [1] and 2020 Census, [2] together with the official estimates as at mid 2023. [3] The table also includes the number of districts (kecamatan) in each regency or city, its administrative capital and its Human Development Index for 2018.

Kode
Wilayah
Name of
City or
Regency
Area
in
km2
Pop'n
Census
2000
Pop'n
Census
2010
Pop'n
Census
2020
Pop'n
Estimate
mid 2023
No.
of
districts
Capital HDI
2018
Estimates
73.01 Selayar Islands Regency
(Kepulauan Selayar)
1,160.359103,596122,055137,071141,18011 Benteng 0.660 (Medium)
73.02 Bulukumba Regency 1,175.528352,419394,560437,607450,33010 Bulukumba 0.677 (Medium)
73.03 Bantaeng Regency 390.969158,632176,699196,716203,1408 Bantaeng 0.677 (Medium)
73.04 Jeneponto Regency 796.001317,588342,700401,610414,48011 Bontosunggu 0.633 (Medium)
73.05 Takalar Regency 555.431229,718269,603300,853312,8109Pattallassang0.660 (Medium)
73.06 Gowa Regency 1,812.997512,876652,941765,836801,11018 Sungguminasa 0.688 (Medium)
73.07 Sinjai Regency 865.244204,385228,879259,478267,5409 Sinjai 0.662 (Medium)
73.08 Bone Regency 4,567.363648,089717,682801,775823,08027 Watampone 0.650 (Medium)
73.09 Maros Regency 1,442.946272,116319,002391,774407,92014Turikale0.689 (Medium)
73.10 Pangkajene and Islands Regency
(Pangkajene Dan Kepulauan,
or "PanKep")
888.913263,565305,737345,775355,61013 Pangkajene 0.677 (Medium)
73.11 Barru Regency 1,201.903151,085165,983184,452187,9507 Barru 0.700 (High)
73.12 Soppeng Regency 1,385.546219,505223,826235,167238,2408 Watansoppeng 0.676 (Medium)
73.13 Wajo Regency 2,608.708357,720385,109379,079386,54014 Sengkang 0.685 (Medium)
73.14 Sidenreng Rappang Regency
(or "SidRap")
1,832.300238,419271,911327,920327,41611Pangkajene
Sidenreng
0.706 (High)
73.15 Pinrang Regency 1,896.575310,833351,118403,994419,34012 Pinrang 0.706 (High)
73.16 Enrekang Regency 1,806.845166,307190,248225,172234,57012Enrekang0.721 (High)
73.71 Makassar (City)176.8521,130,3841,338,6631,423,8771,454,96015Makassar0.817 (Very High)
73.72 Parepare (City)89.670108,258129,262151,454158,4304Parepare0.771 (High)
73Southern half24,654.1505,936,6336,585,9787,361,6807,585,130213
73.17 Luwu Regency 2,902.069398,131332,482365,608379,30022 Belopa 0.696 (Medium)
73.18 Tana Toraja Regency 2,043.623392,726221,081280,794289,45019 Makale 0.676 (Medium)
73.22 North Luwu Regency
(Luwu Utara)
7,422.418431,680287,472322,919333,78012 Masamba 0.687 (Medium)
73.24 East Luwu Regency
(Luwu Timur)
6,745.921(a)243,069296,741308,53011 Malili 0.721(High)
73.27 North Toraja Regency
(Toraja Utara)
1,289.134(b)216,762261,086273,34021 Rantepao 0.684 (Medium)
73.73 Palopo (City)273.235(c)147,932184,681192,7609Palopo0.773 (High)
73Northern half20,676.4001,222,5371,448,7981,711,8291,777,16094
73Province Totals45,330.5507,159,1708,034,7769,073,5099,362,290307Makassar0.709 (High)

Notes: (a) The 2000 Census population for East Luwu Regency is included in the figure for North Luwu Regency, from which it was formed on 25 February 2003 (under Law No.7 of 2003).
(b) The 2000 Census population for North Toraja Regency is included in the figure for Tana Toraja Regency, from which it was formed on 26 November 2008 (under Law No.28 of 2008, following the publication of the report of Commission President Yudhoyono, numbered R.68/Pres/12/2007 on 10 December 2007, regarding the expansion of the twelve original districts and cities).
(c) The 2000 Census population for Palopo city is included in the figure for Luwu Regency, from which it was formed on 10 April 2002 (under Law No.11 of 2002).

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Districts

The 307 districts (kecamatan) of South Sulawesi are as follows, listed with the regencies or cities in which they are situated:

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