Mempawah Regency

Mempawah Regency (formerly called the Pontianak Regency) is a regency of West Kalimantan Province of Indonesia. Originally including a wider area of West Kalimantan, this Pontianak Regency was reduced on 4 October 1999 by the north-eastern districts (formerly the majority of the regency's land area) being removed to form a new Landak Regency, and was further reduced on 17 July 2007 by its southern districts cut out to create a new Kubu Raya Regency. Since 2007 it covers 2,797.88 km², and had a population of 234,021 at the 2010 Census and 301,560 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 310,927 (comprising 158,866 males and 52,061 females). The principal town lies at Mempawah.