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East Timor is divided into 14 municipalities (Portuguese: municípios, Tetum: munisípiu), which are former districts. One municipality is also a Special Administrative Region (SAR).[1] The municipalities are divided into administrative posts (former subdistricts), and further subdivided into sucos (villages).[2] Atauro Island was initially a part of Dili Municipality, but became a separate municipality on 1 January 2022.[3][4] The borders between Cova Lima and Ainaro and between Baucau and Viqueque were changed in 2003.

List

Municipality Capital Established Area[5] Population (2022)[5] Population density[5] Map
Aileu Aileu 1973[6] 676 km2 (261 sq mi) 54,631 80.8/km2 (209/sq mi)
Ainaro Ainaro 1970[6] 869.8 km2 (335.8 sq mi) 72,989 83.9/km2 (217/sq mi)
Atauro Vila Maumeta 2022[7] 140.5 km2 (54.2 sq mi) 10,302 73.3/km2 (190/sq mi)
Baucau Baucau 1960[6] 1,508 km2 (582 sq mi) 133,881 88.8/km2 (230/sq mi)
Bobonaro Maliana 1960[6] 1,380.8 km2 (533.1 sq mi) 106,543 77.2/km2 (200/sq mi)
Cova Lima Suai 1961[8] 1,206.7 km2 (465.9 sq mi) 73,909 61.3/km2 (159/sq mi)
Dili Dili 1941[6] 227.6 km2 (87.9 sq mi) 324,269 1,424.7/km2 (3,690/sq mi)
Ermera Gleno 1960[6] 770.8 km2 (297.6 sq mi) 138,080 179.1/km2 (464/sq mi)
Lautém Lospalos 1960[6] 1,813.1 km2 (700.0 sq mi) 69,836 38.5/km2 (100/sq mi)
Liquiçá Liquiçá 1970[6] 551 km2 (213 sq mi) 83,689 151.9/km2 (393/sq mi)
Manatuto Manatuto 1960[6] 1,786 km2 (690 sq mi) 50,989 28.6/km2 (74/sq mi)
Manufahi Same 1960[6] 1,326.6 km2 (512.2 sq mi) 60,536 45.6/km2 (118/sq mi)
Oecusse Pante Macassar 1973[6] 817.2 km2 (315.5 sq mi) 80,726 98.8/km2 (256/sq mi)
Viqueque Viqueque 1960[6] 1,880.4 km2 (726.0 sq mi) 80,054 42.6/km2 (110/sq mi)
A clickable map of East Timor exhibiting its 14 administrative municipalities.
A clickable map of East Timor exhibiting its 14 administrative municipalities.Atauro DistrictLautém DistrictBaucau DistrictViqueque DistrictManatuto DistrictDili DistrictAileu DistrictManufahi DistrictLiquiçá DistrictErmera DistrictAinaro DistrictBobonaro DistrictCova Lima DistrictOecusse District
A clickable map of East Timor exhibiting its 14 administrative municipalities.

By population

Municipality 2004 census 2010 census 2015 census 2022 census
Lautém 56,293 59,787 65,240 70,022
Baucau 100,748 111,694 123,203 134,878
Viqueque 65,449 70,036 76,033 80,176
Manatuto 36,897 42,742 46,619 50,859
Dili 165,678 225,424 268,005 324,738
Aileu 37,967 44,325 48,837 54,324
Manufahi 45,081 48,628 53,691 60,665
Liquiçá 54,973 63,403 79,127 83,658
Ermera 103,322 117,064 125,702 137,750
Ainaro 52,480 59,175 63,136 73,115
Bobonaro 83,579 92,049 97,762 106,639
Cova Lima 53,063 59,455 65,301 73,933
Oecusse 57,616 64,025 68,913 60,685
Atauro 7,863 8,602 9,274 10,295

Source: National Institute of Statistics Timor-Leste.

Allocation of land area and population in percent (2010)

See also

References

  1. ^ Jornal da República: Diploma Ministerial no. 24/2014 de 24 de Julho, Orgânica dos Postos Administrativos
  2. ^ Data from 2004 census from the Direcção Nacional de Estatística, Timor-Leste: District Priority Tables Archived 2007-09-29 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 28 January 2008
  3. ^ Piedade da Freitas, Domingos (9 March 2022). "Governo nomeia Domingos Soares para Administrador Municipal de Ataúro" [Government appoints Domingos Soares as Municipal Administrator of Atauro] (in Portuguese). Tatoli. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Governo timorense nomeia primeiro administrador do novo município de Ataúro" [Timorese government appoints first administrator of the new municipality of Ataúro]. RTP Notícias (in Portuguese). 9 March 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2022.
  5. ^ a b c Timor-Leste Population and Housing Census 2022: Preliminary Results (PDF). Dili: Direcção Geral de Estatística. November 2022. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Ximenes, Valentim (March 2016). Reforma Político-Administrativa em Timor-Leste Enquanto Processo de Reterritorialização [Political-Administrative Reform in Timor-Leste as a Reterritorialization Process] (PDF) (in Portuguese). Coimbra: Universidade de Coimbra. pp. 42–43. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
  7. ^ Martins, Filomeno (2021-12-28). "Government to officially declare Atauro Island as new municipality in January 2022". TATOLI Agência Noticiosa de Timor-Leste. Retrieved 2024-12-04.
  8. ^ "Decreto n.º 43889, de 1 de setembro". Diário da República (in Portuguese). 1961-09-01. Retrieved 2024-12-04.

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