This regency is noted for its diamond mines and its people's religiosity (of Islam).

At the time of the 2010 Census, the residual Banjar Regency was divided into nineteen districts (kecamatan).

[1] The table also includes the number of administrative villages in each district (a total of 277 rural desa and 13 urban kelurahan), and its post code.

Fourteen of the districts (including the entire Western and Martapura groups, and the western part of the third group) lie within the official Banjarbaru metropolitan area.

(b) includes 3 kelurahan - Kertak Hanyar I, Manarap Lama and Mandar Sari.