South Tambun
district in Bekasi Regency, West Java Province, Indonesia
South Tambun (Indonesian: Tambun Selatan) is a town and an administrative district (kecamatan) of Bekasi Regency, in West Java, Indonesia. The district covers an area of 37.12 km2, and had a population of 417,008 at the 2010 Census and 431,038 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2024 was 450,469, comprising 226,099 males and 224,370 females. The administrative centre is located at the town of Tambun, and the district is sub-divided into one town (kelurahan) - Jatimulya - and nine villages (desa), all sharing a post-code of 17510, as listed below with their areas and their populations as at mid 2024.
“South Tambun” enters the record as district in Bekasi Regency, West Java Province, Indonesia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what South, Tambun and district can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q216214. Authority coordinates are -6.239, 107.051. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2020 and 2024.
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