Kapuas Regency

Kapuas Regency (Indonesian: Kabupaten Kapuas) is one of the thirteen regencies which divide Central Kalimantan Province, on the island of Kalimantan, Indonesia. It formerly covered a wider area, but on 10 April 2002 two further regencies (Pulang Pisau Regency and Gunung Mas Regency) were cut out of its western districts, and the residual area is now 14,999 km.² Its population was 329,646 at the 2010 Census and 410,446 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 423,210 (comprising 218,291 males and 204,919 females). The administrative centre is the town of Kuala Kapuas near the coast, but the largest town is Selat, which includes 8 of the regency's 15 urban kelurahan, and had 73,900 inhabitants in 2022.