page_title: Tasikmalaya Regency
section_title: Toponomy
hierarchical_section_title: Tasikmalaya Regency / History / Toponomy
caption_attribution_description: English: A picture taken from Mount Galunggung, showing the landscape of the Ten thousand hills of Tasikmalaya Bahasa Indonesia: Sebuah gambar diambil dari Gunung Galunggung, memperlihatkan pemandangan perbukitan sepuluh ribu Tasikmalaya Basa Sunda: Hiji gambar dipoto ti Gunung Galunggung, ningalikeun pamandangan pabukitan sapuluh rebu Tasikmalaya
context_page_description: Tasikmalaya Regency is a regency in the province of West Java, Indonesia. It covers an area of 2,712.52 km², and had a population of 1,675,675 at the 2010 Census; the latest official estimate was 1,876,544. Located in the southeastern region of Priangan, the Regency is by far the biggest and the most important regency in East Preanger. The Regency was previously administered from Tasikmalaya City, which however is now administratively independent of the Regency, and the administrative centre of the Regency is now at Singaparna to the west of the city.
  Most of the Regency features green fields, predominantly occupied by agriculture and forestry, whilst farmers settled as the majority of its population. Tasikmalaya regency is well known for its handicrafts, salak, whilst nasi tutug oncom known as the Regency's famous dish. The Regency is also known as a major religious centre in West Java, which has more than 800 pesantren.
context_section_description: Whilst the single word of the name does not convey any apparent meaning in its local languages, many believed that the name Tasikmalaya means either "a large area of sand" or "a large area of mountains".
  It presumed to begin at Sukapura, a place at earlier time called Tawang or Tawang-Galunggung. Tawang means paddy fields, or literary "a wide range of an open space". When Mount Galunggung erupted and left its volcanic deposits everywhere nearby, the open space of Sukapura became mountainous or hilly, by mounds of sand scattered over its land. These new contours of the land are believed to be the beginning of the naming Tasikmalaya. It is either derived from a conflation of Sundanese language tasik and (ma)layah, meaning, literary "an ocean of hills", or from Sundanese language tasik, jeung, and laya, meaning "large tracts of sand" (Sundanese: keusik ngalayah, Indonesian: hamparan pasir). Other believes that the name is also defined as "an ocean of hills" but with different theory, where Tasikmalaya is believed to be originated from Sundanese language tasik (lake, sea), and malaya (a chain of mountains or highlands). However, there is not such certain information of when the name was first originated.
caption: The Ten Thousand Hills, hummocky deposits from the eruption of Mount Galunggung
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