page_title: Gowa Regency
section_title: Administration
hierarchical_section_title: Gowa Regency / Administration
caption_attribution_description: English: Wall being renovated, Fort "Benteng Samba Opu", Sungguminasa near Makassar, Sulawesi, Indonesia
context_page_description: Gowa is a regency in the province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It has an area of 1,883 km² and a population of 652,329 at the 2010 Census; the latest official estimate is 751,981. The majority of the Regency lies within the official metropolitan area of the city of Makassar, including the regency's administrative capital at Sungguminasa. The hill resort of Malino is within the eastern part of the regency.
context_section_description: The regency is divided into eighteen districts (kecamatan), tabulated below with their areas and their 2018 officially estimated populations.
  The first eleven of the eighteen districts tabulated above lie within the official metropolitan area of the city of Makassar; the remaining seven districts lie outside that area.
caption: Wall being restored
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