List of regencies and districts of South Sulawesi

The Districts of South Sulawesi are an administrative division for South Sulawesi, a province of Indonesia that is made up of regencies and independent cities which are both in turn divided into districts called Kecamatan.

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[edit]

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 – North Toraja – 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 and 2020 Census,^[1] together with the official estimates as at mid 2022.^[2] The table also includes the number of districts (kecamatan) in each regency or city, its administrative capital and its Human Development Index for 2018.

Name	Area (km2)	Population Census 2000	Population Census 2010	Population Census 2020	Population Estimate mid 2022	Number of districts	Capital	HDI 2018 Estimates
Selayar Islands Regency (Kepulauan Selayar)	1,357.03	103,596	122,055	137,071	139,100	11	Benteng	0.660 (Medium)
Bulukumba Regency	1,284.63	352,419	394,560	437,607	443,300	10	Bulukumba	0.677 (Medium)
Bantaeng Regency	395.83	158,632	176,699	196,716	199,400	8	Bantaeng	0.677 (Medium)
Jeneponto Regency	706.52	317,588	342,700	401,610	410,600	11	Bontosunggu	0.633 (Medium)
Takalar Regency	566.61	229,718	269,603	300,853	305,100	9	Pattallassang	0.660 (Medium)
Gowa Regency	1,883.32	512,876	652,941	765,836	783,200	18	Sungguminasa	0.688 (Medium)
Sinjai Regency	798.96	204,385	228,879	259,478	263,800	9	Sinjai	0.662 (Medium)
Maros Regency	1,619.12	272,116	319,002	391,774	403,800	14	Maros	0.689 (Medium)
Pangkajene and Islands Regency (Pangkajene Dan Kepulauan, or “PanKep”)	1,132.08	263,565	305,737	345,775	351,400	13	Pangkajene	0.677 (Medium)
Barru Regency	1,174.71	151,085	165,983	184,452	186,900	7	Barru	0.700 (High)
Bone Regency	4,559.00	648,089	717,682	801,775	813,200	27	Watampone	0.650 (Medium)
Soppeng Regency	1,557.00	219,505	223,826	235,167	236,000	8	Watansoppeng	0.676 (Medium)
Wajo Regency	2,504.06	357,720	385,109	379,079	379,700	14	Sengkang	0.685 (Medium)
Sidenreng Rappang Regency (or “SidRap”)	1,883.23	238,419	271,911	319,990	327,400	11	Pangkajene Sidenreng	0.706 (High)
Pinrang Regency	1,961.67	310,833	351,118	403,994	411,800	12	Pinrang	0.706 (High)
Enrekang Regency	1,784.93	166,307	190,248	225,172	230,600	12	Enrekang	0.721 (High)
Luwu Regency	3,343.97	398,131	332,482	365,608	369,800	22	Belopa	0.696 (Medium)
Tana Toraja Regency	1,990.22	392,726	221,081	280,794	291,000	19	Makale	0.676 (Medium)
North Luwu Regency (Luwu Utara)	7,502.58	431,680	287,472	322,919	327,800	12	Masamba	0.687 (Medium)
East Luwu Regency (Luwu Timur)	6,944.88	***	243,069	296,741	305,500	11	Malili	0.721(High)
North Toraja Regency (Toraja Utara)	1,215.55	*	216,762	261,086	268,200	21	Rantepao	0.684 (Medium)
Makassar (City)	199.26	1,130,384	1,338,663	1,423,877	1,432,200	15	Makassar	0.817 (Very High)
Parepare (City)	99.33	108,258	129,262	151,454	154,900	4	Parepare	0.771 (High)
Palopo (City)	252.99	#	147,932	184,681	190,900	9	Palopo	0.773 (High)
Province Totals	46,717.48	7,159,170	8,034,776	9,073,509	9,225,747	307	Makassar	0.709 (High)

# The 2000 Census population for Palopo city is included in the figure for Luwu Regency.

* The 2000 Census population for North Toraja Regency is included in the figure for Tana Toraja Regency, which was formed in 2008 following the publication of Commission President Yudhoyono, numbered R.68/Pres/12/2007 on 10 December 2007, regarding the expansion of the twelve original districts and cities.

*** The 2000 Census population for East Luwu Regency is included in the figure for North Luwu Regency.

Districts[edit]

The 307 districts of South Sulawesi, and their regencies or cities in which they are situated, are as follows:

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