Tangerang Regency


Tangerang Regency is a regency of Banten Province, Indonesia. It is located in the northwest of the island of Java. Though commonly misunderstood as being a part of Jakarta, Tangerang is actually outside Jakarta City but is part of Greater Jakarta. Originally created in 1950 and then including 1,371 km2 of territory to the west of Jakarta, since 1993 the regency has lost territory as first Tangerang city was split off on 27 February 1993 and subsequently South Tangerang city was split off on 29 October 2008.
The residual Regency now has an area of 1,030.81 km2 and a population of 2,834,376 at the 2010 census, growing to 3,245,619 at the 2020 census; the latest official estimate by the regency-level Indonesian Statistics Bureau is 3,416,163, reflecting a recent slowing down in the rate of population growth since 2020. However, the province-level organisation of the same Indonesian Statistics body has published its own total of 3,400,490 for the regency. If the two cities had not been split off in 1993 and 2008, on its original boundaries the regency would have had 6,764,000 inhabitants as at mid 2024, which would have given it the largest population of any regency in Indonesia.
The current regent is Andi Ony Prihartono. The town of Tigaraksa is the regency seat.
Tangerang Regency is bounded by the Java Sea to the north, by Jakarta city, Tangerang city and South Tangerang city to the east, by Bogor Regency to the south, by a small section of Lebak Regency to the southwest, and by Serang Regency to the west.
Tangerang city was formed as an autonomous city on 27 February 1993 out of districts in the eastern part of the Tangerang Regency. The city was previously an administrative city within that Regency.
From 1993 until 2008, Tangerang Regency was divided into 36 Districts. On 27 October 2008, seven further districts in the south-eastern part of Tangerang Regency were cut out to form the South Tangerang autonomous city/municipality. They were Ciputat, Ciputat Timur, Pamulang, Pondok Aren, Serpong, Serpong Utara and Setu Districts.
After losing seven districts, which were removed to form the new South Tangerang municipality, the Tangerang Regency administration planned to divide three of the remaining 29 districts into six in the near future. "We have conducted a study on the regional division, and the results suggest the division of Rajeg, Pakuhaji and Teluknaga districts", Muhamad, administration affairs chief at the regional administration said in April 2010. But these new districts have not materialised by 2025.

Administrative districts

Following the creation of the cities of Tangerang and South Tangerang from parts of the regency, the present Tangerang Regency now comprises the following 29 districts, tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census and the 2020 census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2024. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages in each district, and its postal codes.
The districts are grouped below for ease of reference into five geographical areas. The first sixteen districts in the following table indicate those sixteen districts in the southwest of Tangerang Regency which would remain in the putative renamed "Tigaraksa Regency" if government proposals to divide the existing Regency were to be carried out. The last thirteen districts are those districts in North Tangerang which would then form a separate "North Tangerang Regency". Other proposals which were considered involved creating a "Central Tangerang Municipality" with some 702,115 inhabitants in mid 2024, and creating another municipality in the north-east of the regency with some 653,052 inhabitants in mid 2024.
Kode
Wilayah		Name of
District
Area
in
sq. km		Pop'n
2010
census		Pop'n
2020
census		Pop'n
mid 2024
Estimate		Admin
centre		No.
of
villages		Post
codes
36.03.05Cisoka31.2178,85496,433103,214Cisoka1015730
36.03.31Solear34.0773,88895,521109,317Solear715731
36.03.03Tigaraksa55.30119,245155,557170,918Tigaraksa14 15721
36.03.04Jambe28.2540,18751,13658,700Tiparaya1015720
36.03.18Cikupa45.75224,678208,302207,659Budimulya14 15710
36.03.19Panongan35.6196,383130,489138,524Panongan8 15711
Totals forSouthwest area230.19633,235737,438788,34263
36.03.17Curug30.83165,812174,867183,904Cukanggalih7 15810
36.03.28Kelapa Dua26.22178,035169,340174,127Curug Sangereng6 15811
36.03.20Legok37.7498,171118,391127,548Caringin11 15820
36.03.22Pagedangan50.7595,194107,897119,332Pagedangan11 15330
- 15339
36.03.23Cisauk30.0564,08390,84697,204Sampora6 15340
- 15345
Totals forSouth Central area175.59601,295661,341702,11541
36.03.01Balaraja32.30111,475119,409128,824Talagasari9 15610
36.03.02Jayanti24.8863,49465,54573,039Cikande815611
36.03.27Sukamulya25.8859,02769,27592,636Sukamulya815612
36.03.06Kresek29.9960,73568,03974,297Kresek915621
36.03.32Gunung Kaler32.7747,69951,10258,465Gunung Kaler915620
36.03.07Kronjo46.5155,15261,71968,093Pagedangan Ilir1015550
36.03.33Mekar Baru25.7835,41741,32946,166Mekar Baru815551
Totals forNorthwest area218.11432,999476,418541,52061
36.03.12Pasarkemis30.73238,377273,659263,289Sukamantri9 15560
36.03.29Sindang Jaya41.3977,02591,170100,376Sindang Asih715561
36.03.08Mauk44.9477,59985,57394,536Mauk Timur12 15531
36.03.09Kemiri33.4540,60548,06153,259Kemiri715530
36.03.10Sukadiri24.9953,10063,48969,234Rawa Kidang815532
36.03.11Rajeg49.49133,274190,946 150,440Mekarsari13 15540
Totals forNorth Central area224.99619,980752,898731,13456
36.03.16Sepatan19.2292,353116,690117,734Sepatan8 15520
36.03.30Sepatan Timur
19.6681,667105,578111,034Kedaung Barat815521
36.03.15Pakuhaji54.55103,506119,050132,734Buaran Bambu14 15570
36.03.13Teluknaga 52.41138,330160,946175,155Kampung Melayu Timur1315510
36.03.14Kosambi36.09131,011115,260116,395Selembaran Jaya10 15211
- 15215
Totals forNortheast area181.93546,867617,524653,05253

Notes: includes 2 kelurahan. includes 2 kelurahan.
includes the kelurahan of Mekar Bakti. includes 3 kelurahan.
comprises 5 kelurahan and one desa.
includes the kelurahan of Babakan. includes the kelurahan of Medang.
except the village of Karangtengah, which has a post code of 15157. includes the kelurahan of Cisauk.
includes the kelurahan of Balaraja. comprises 4 kelurahan and 5 desa.
includes the kelurahan of Mauk Timur. a large drop in the area and population figures for Rajeg District between the 2024 and 2025 published figures seems to be attributable to the removal of parts of three desa, but no reason for this is given in the published reports. includes the kelurahan of Sutatani. includes the kelurahan of Sepatan.
includes the kelurahan of Pakuhaji. including the offshore island of Pulau Betingan.
including 3 kelurahan.