Complex sentence: It had a population of 2,446,218 at the 2010 Census, excluding the areas and populations of the two autonomous cities of Malang and Batu which geographically lie within the regency but are administratively independent of it.
Split into simpler sentences: It had a population of 2,446,218 at the 2010 Census, excluding the areas and populations of the two autonomous cities of Malang and Batu. They lie within the regency but are administratively independent of it.