Mempawah Regency

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Mempawah or 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 the residual regency (renamed Mempawah Regency in 2014) covers 1,934.83 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 2025 was 320,630 (comprising 163,915 males and 157,715 females). The administrative centre is at the town of Mempawah, in Mempawah Hilir District.