Buton Selatan (Government district)

Kabupaten Buton Selatan South Buton Governorate
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Basic data
Country	Indonesia
province	Sulawesi Tenggara
Seat	Batauga
surface	50,992 km²
Residents	98,582 (2019)
density	1.9 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	ID-SG
Website	butonselatankab.go.id (Indonesian)
politics
Bupati	Agus Feisal Hidayat

Coordinates: 5 ° 41 ′  S , 122 ° 43 ′  E

Buton Selatan (German: Südbuton) is a government district ( Kabupaten ) on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi . The district is part of the Sulawesi Tenggara Province (Southeast Sulawesi).

geography

The administrative district is located in the extreme southeast of the island of Sulawesi and borders the city ( Kota ) Bau Bau in the north and the Buton district in the west. The natural border in the east and south forms the Floresee ( Laut Flores ). The island of Batu Atas (9.19 km²) is located about 50 km south of the island of Buton and is separated from it by the Banda Sea ( according to Banda ).

Administrative division

The district of Buton Selatan was separated from the district of Buton by Law No. 16 in 2014 and consists of seven administrative districts ( Kecamatan ) (as of 2019):

Territory code code Wilayah	Kecamatan District	Capital Ibu kota	Number of parishes		Area (km²)	Population 2019	Population density (inh / km²)
			Kelurahan (urban)	Desa (rural)
74.15.01	Batauga	Laompo	7th	5	151.85	17,983	118.4
74.15.02	Sampolawa	Mambulu	3	13	215.73	24.205	112.2
74.15.03	Lapandewa	Lapandewa		7th	86.95	9,886	113.6
74.15.04	Batu Atas	Ujung		7th	12.88	12,714	987.1
74.15.05	Siompu Barat (West Siompu)	Molona		8th	16.48	11,244	682.2
74.15.06	Siompu	Biwinapada		10	37.72	11,334	300.4
74.15.07	Kadatua	Kaofe		10	24.81	11,216	452.0
74	Kabupaten Buton Selatan	Batauga	10	60	509.92	98,582	193.3

Source of the administrative and area data: Peraturan Menteri Dalam Negeri RI Nomor 72 Tahun 2019 (Ordinance of the Minister of the Interior of October 2019):
The population data are based on updates by the regional civil registration offices and are from the end of 2019

Web links

• E-books on the district's statistics page (BPS - Badan Pusat Statistics Kabupaten Buton Selatan) (Indonesian / English)
• 1: 75,000 scale administrative map of the district (Indonesian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UU No. 16 TH 2014
2. ↑ Kementerian Dalam Negeri - Dukcapil - Visualisasi Data Kependudukan
3. ↑ Peraturan Menteri Dalam Negeri RI Nomor 72 Tahun 2019: page 3146, 3276
4. ↑ Visualisasi Data Kependudukan , clickable map