[2] The administrative centre lies at Labungkari in Lakudo District.

[5] The Central Buton Regency is divided into seven districts (kecamatan),[6][7] tabulated below with their areas and 2010[3] and 2020 Census[4] populations, together with the official estimates as at mid 2023.

[2] The table also includes the location of the administrative centre of each district, the number of administrative villages in each district (totaling 67 rural desa and 10 urban kelurahan), the number of small offshore islands in each district, and its post code.

The new Regency thus comprises six districts in the southern part of Muna Island together with one district (Talaga Raya) in the southern part of Kabaena Island.

(c) includes 3 kelurahan (Boneoge, Gu Timur and Lakudo).