Sumenep,[a] officially the Sumenep Regency,[b] was previously spelled as Samanap or Zamanap in English,[6] is a regency of the East Java province, Indonesia. It has an area of 2,093.47 square kilometres (808.29 sq mi) and the population of 1,142,210 (comprising 551,366 males and 590,844 females) as of 2023.[1] The administrative capital is Kota Sumenep. Since 2014, Sumenep Regency has been recognized by UNESCO as the area that has the most Mpu (makers of heirlooms) in the world and most of them are in Aeng Tong-Tong Village, Saronggi District.
Sumenep Regency is located at the eastern end of Madura Island; it also includes 126 scattered islands located between 113 ° 32'54 "-116 ° 16'48" East Longitude and between 4 ° 55'-7 ° 24 'South latitude. The regency is bordered to the south by the Strait of Madura and the Bali Sea, to the north by the Java Sea, to the west by Pamekasan Regency (the only land border), and to the east by the Java Sea and the Flores Sea.
Area
The total land area of Sumenep Regency is 2,093.47 km2: this was formerly quoted as comprising 179.32 km2 of settlements, 423.96 km2 of forest, 14.68 km2 of grass area or vacant land, 1,130.19 km2 of farm/moor/bush/field, 59.07 km2 of pool/aquaculture/brackish water/lakes/reservoirs/wetlands, and 63.41 km2 of "other" areas. The marine area of Sumenep Regency, with its vast diversity of marine resources and potential for fishery, is about 9,319.65 km2.
Climate
Sumenep has a tropical savanna climate (Aw) with May to November and heavy rainfall from December to April.
Sumenep Regency is divided into twenty-seven districts (kecamatan), listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census[8] and the 2020 census,[9] together with the official estimates as of mid-2023.[1] The table also includes the location of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages in each district (totaling 328 rural desa and 4 urban kelurahan - the latter all in Kota Sumenep District), and their postcodes.
Sumenep Regency, besides including the eastern quarter of Madura Island, also includes many offshore islands - notably the Kangean Islands to the east of Madura, the smaller Sapudi Islands lying between Madura and the Kangean Islands, and Talango Island closer to Madura; it also includes the small Masalembu Islands to the north (between Madura and Kalimantan) and the Giligenteng Islands to the southeast of Madura. The mainland (i.e. the area on Madura Island itself) covers 1,156.07 km2 (with 808,553 inhabitants in mid 2023) consisting of 18 districts, while the various islands are 937.40 km2 in area (with 333,657 people in mid 2023), comprising 9 districts, with 128 islands, 46 inhabited.[10][8][1]
Note: (a) comprising 4 kelurahan (Bangselok, Karangduak, Kepanjin and Pajagalan) and 12 desa. (b) includes the island of Gili Iyang (also known as Pulau Oksigen) east of Madura, with an area of 9.15 km2 and an estimated mid-2023 population of about 8,600 people in 2 desa (Bancamara in the south and Banraas in the north).
The districts are subdivided (as at 2007) into:
Villages: 328 rural desa and 4 urban kelurahan (all 4 kelurahan are in Kota Sumenep District)
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