Keerom Regency
Keerom Regency is one of the regencies ("kabupaten") in the Papua Province of Indonesia. It was formed from the eastern districts then within Jayapura Regency with effect from 12 November 2002. It covers an area of 9,365 km, and had a population of 48,536 at the 2010 Census and 61,623 at the 2020 Census. The regency's administrative centre is at Waris. It borders Green River Rural LLG and Amanab Rural LLG of Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea. Languages. Border languages (Awyi, Waris, Manem, Sowanda), Pauwasi languages (Emem, Zorop, Tebi), Namla-Tofanma languages, Dera, Elseng, and Usku are  the local indigenous Papuan languages spoken in Keerom Regency. Administrative districts. As at 2010, the Keerom regency comprised seven districts ("distrik"), but another four districts (Yaffi, Kaisenar, Arso Barat and Mannem) were added subsequently by splitting of existing districts. These eleven districts are tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census. The table also includes the location of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages (rural "desa" and urban "kelurahan") in each district, and its post code. Notes: (a) the 2010 population for this district is included in the figure  for the district from which the new district was cut out. Web, Towe, Yaffi, Waris, and Arso Timur districts have land borders with Papua New Guinea.