Grobogan Regency
regency in Central Java Province, Indonesia
Grobogan Regency (Javanese: ꦒꦿꦺꦴꦧꦺꦴꦒ꧀ꦒꦤ꧀) is a regency (Indonesian: kabupaten) located in northeastern part of the Central Java province in Indonesia.
Created on 4 March 1726, the Grobogan Regency has an area of 2,023.84 km2, and is the second largest regency in the Central Java Province. It had a population of 1,308,696 at the 2010 census and 1,453,526 at the 2020 census; the official estimate as of mid 2025 was 1,525,214 (comprising 767,149 males and 758,065 females). Its capital is the town of Purwodadi.
Administrative districts
Grobogan is divided into nineteen districts, listed below with their areas and populations at the 2010 census and the 2020 census, together with the official estimates as of mid 2025. The most westerly twelve of these districts (with a combined population of 888,581 at the 2020 census) lie within the officially defined Semarang Metropolitan Area (known as Kedungsepur); the remaining seven districts to the east (indicated by asterisks (*) following their names in the table below) are outside the Semarang Metropolitan Area. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages in each district (totaling 273 rural desa and 7 urban kelurahan), and its postal code.
Notes: (a) including the two kelurahan of Wirosari and Kunden. (b) including the kelurahan of Grobogan. (c) including the four kelurahan of Purwodadi, Danyang, Kalongan and Kuripan.
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