Pakpak Bharat Regency
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Administrative districts
The regency is divided administratively into eight districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their reas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2023. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages (all classed as rural desa) in each district and its post code.
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Demographics
Ethnic groups
The indigenous peoples that inhabit Pakpak Bharat Regency in general are the Pakpak people. Besides Pakpak, other Batak ethnicities include Toba and Karo; there are also other ethnic groups such as Malay and Nias and so on.
Most of the territory of Pakpak Bharat Regency is the ulayat land of the Pakpak people Suak Simsim, so the majority of Pakpak clan in Pakpak Bharat Regency are from Suak Simsim. However, there are also other Pakpak clans from the other four phylums.
The Pakpak clans inhabiting Pakpak Bharat Regency include:
- Bancin
- Banurea
- Berutu
- Boangmanalu
- Cibro
- Kabeakan
- Kesogihen
- Limbong
- Manik
- Padang
- Padang Batanghari
- Sinamo
- Sitakar
- Solin
- Tinendung
Religion
The number of houses of worship by type of places of worship in 2016 in Pakpak Bharat Regency is as follows:
In Pakpak Bharat Regency, Christianity is the religion with the majority of the population, followed by adherents of the Islam religion which also has a large population. There are a total of 189 places of worship (111 churches (98 Protestant and 13 Catholic)), and 78 mosques.
residents of Pakpak Bharat Regency who are Protestant Christians are members of the Church GKPPD.