Bengkulu Province

Bengkulu
Basic data
Area :	19,919 km²
Residents :	1,999,539
Population density :	100 inhabitants / km²
Capital :	Bengkulu
governor	Rohidin Mersyah since December 10, 2018
Location in Indonesia
Website :	bengkuluprov.go.id

Bengkulu (Bangka Ulu, Benkulen, Dutch Benkoelen) is a province on the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra . The province, which has existed independently since 1968, is the third smallest province on the island of Sumatra. With 19,919.33 km² it covers around 2.5% of the island's area. The province's capital of the same name, Bengkulu , has almost 370,000 inhabitants (as of 2019).

geography

The province borders in the northwest on the province Sumatra Barat (about 35 km border line), in the northeast on the province Jambi (about 115 km), in the southeast on the province Sumatra Selatan (about 480 km) and in the southwest on the province Lampung (about 35 km border line). In addition to a narrow, approximately 525 km long coastal strip, the province mainly includes parts of the Barisan Mountains , which run through the entire island. The province also includes the remote island of Enggano (in the administrative district of Bengkulu Utara) and nine smaller islands.

Administrative division

Code Wilayah area code	coat of arms	Kabupaten / Kota administrative district / city	Ibu Kota seat of government!	Kecamatan Sub- District	Keluruhan / Desa municipality	Area [km²]	Population [2019]	Inh. / Km² [2019]
January 17		Kabupaten Bengkulu Selatan	manna	11	16/142	1,186.10	167.997	141.6
17.09		Kabupaten Bengkulu Tengah	Karang Tinggi	11	1/142	1,223.94	113.056	92.4
17.03		Kabupaten Bengkulu Utara	Arga Makmur	19th	5/215	4,324.60	284.505	65.8
04/17		Kabupaten Kaur	Bintuhan	15th	3/192	2,369.05	129,843	64.8
08/17		Kabupaten Kepahiang	Kepahiang	8th	12/105	665.00	151.019	227.1
07/17		Kabupaten Lebong	Tubei	12	11/93	1,921.82	112,900	58.7
17.06		Kabupaten Muko Muko	Mukomuko	15th	3/148	4,036.70	180,951	44.8
02/17		Kabupaten Rejang Lebong	Curup	15th	34/122	1,639.98	278.865	170.0
05/17		Kabupaten Seluma	Tais	14th	20/182	2400.44	211,619	88.2
17.71		Kota Bengkulu	Bengkulu	9	67 / -	151.70	368.784	2,431.0
17th	Provinsi Bengkulu		Bengkulu	29	172/1341	19,919.33	1,999,539	100.4

Source: Peraturan Menteri Dalam Negeri RI Nomor 72 Tahun 2019 (ordinance of the Minister of the Interior of October 2019):

The population information is based on updates by the regional civil registration offices and comes from the first half of 2019.

history

The British East India Company established a trading post (called Bengcoolen ) in Bengkulu in 1685 after being driven out of Bantam on the island of Java in 1682 . Fort Marlborough was built in 1714 and is still standing today. Thomas Stamford Raffles became governor in 1817. From 1825 the area belonged to the Dutch , and since Indonesia's independence in 1949 it has been a province.

The earthquake of June 4, 2000 with a magnitude of 7.9 and epicenter near the town of Tais killed 117 people and injured over 1,300. A series of other earthquakes claimed 13 lives in September 2007.

Economy and tourism

Coal and gold mining has played an important role since colonial times . The main agricultural products include ginger , pepper , coconuts and coffee . In the valleys of the Barisan Mountains and in the coastal lowlands, intensive rice farming can be carried out. The tourism is gaining importance.

religion

90% of the population are Muslims, 7% Hindus, the rest are minorities of Christians and Animists.

Web links

Commons : Bengkulu (Province)  - Collection of Images

• E-books on the statistics page of the province of Bengkulu (BPS - Badan Pusat Statistics Provinsi Bengkulu) (Indonesian / English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peraturan Menteri Dalam Negeri RI Nomor 72 Tahun 2019: page 6, 1033
2. ^ Edmund Roberts: Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat . Harper & Brothers, New York 1837, p. 34.

Coordinates: 3 ° 42 ′  S , 102 ° 18 ′  E