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Currently for Indonesia, ISO 3166-2 codes are defined for two levels of subdivisions: 7 geographical units (which are major islands or island groups) 36 provinces, 1 capital district, and 1 special region; Each code consists of two parts, separated by a hyphen. The first part is ID, the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code of Indonesia. The second part is ...
The province of Highland Papua (Provinsi Papua Pegunungan) in Indonesia is divided into eight kabupaten which in turn are divided administratively into districts, known as distrik under the law of 2001 on "special autonomy for Papua province".
Highland Papua (Indonesian: Papua Pegunungan) is a province of Indonesia, which roughly follows the borders of Papuan customary region of Lano-Pago, shortened to La Pago. [6] It covers an area of 51,213.33 km 2 (19,773.58 sq mi) and had a population of 1,448,360 according to the official estimates as at mid 2023.
The districts of Papua (as now reduced by the reorganisation of July 2022, which separated twenty regencies previously part of Papua Province into three new provinces of Central Papua, Highland Papua and South Papua) and their respective regencies are as follows (as of December 2019).
This was a response to independence movements that had been present in the province since it became part of Indonesia, and occurred alongside the renaming of the province from Irian Jaya to Papua. [ 8 ] : 42–43 [ 9 ] This gave Papua a greater portion of revenue, autonomy outside reserved areas maintained by the central government, and 20 ...
This is a list of some of the regions of Indonesia. Many regions are defined in law or regulations by the central government. Many regions are defined in law or regulations by the central government. At different times of Indonesia 's history, the nation has been designated as having regions that do not necessarily correlate to the current ...
Merauke is the economic centre of South Papua, while its administrative centre is the town of Salor located in Kurik District of Merauke Regency, around 60 km northwest of Merauke town. [8] South Papua landscape predominantly consists of lowland areas characterized by extensive swamps and massive rivers such as the Digul and Maro.
Yahukimo Regency is one of the regencies (kabupaten) in the Indonesian province of Highland Papua.It covers an area of 17,152 km 2, and had a population of 164,512 at the 2010 Census, [2] but this figure more than doubled to reach 350,880 at the 2020 Census; [3] the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 361,776. [1]