[4] The residual Regency now covers an area of 1,456.74 km2, and had a population of 195,553 at the 2010 Census;[5] this had risen to 236,463 at the 2020 Census;[6] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 244,590.

[2] The regency is divided into seventeen districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and population totals from the 2010 Census[5] and the 2020 Census,[6] together with the official estimates as at mid 2023.

[2] The table also includes the locations of the administrative centres, the number of administrative villages in each district (totaling 163 rural desa and 14 urban kelurahan), and its postal codes.

(d) comprises 2 kelurahan (Pondang and Ranomea) and 8 desa.

Amurang, the seat of the regency has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with moderate rainfall from July to September and heavy rainfall in the remaining months.