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Yapen Islands

regency in Papua Province, Indonesia
AdministrativeArea regency_of_indonesia Q27848

Facts

18 properties
Instance of
regency of Indonesia
Country
Indonesia[3]
Official website
kepyapenkab.go.id[22]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -1.788°, 136.277°
Area
+2050[28]
Capital
Serui Kota[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
South Yapen, Kosiwo, Raimbawi, Kepulauan Ambai, Windesi, East Yapen, Poom, Wonawa, Teluk Ampimoi, West Yapen, North Yapen, Angkaisera, Waropen Atas, Masirei, Waropen Bawah, Nusawani, Pulau Kurudu, Pulau Yerui, Anotaurei, Yawakukat[5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]
Elevation above sea level
+705[27]
Executive body
Wikidata item[20]
Highest judicial authority
District Court of Serui[21]
Legislative body
Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Kabupaten Kepulauan Yapen[19]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Papua[2]
Name
Kepulauan Yapen, Yapen Waropen[29][30]
Office held by head of government
Regent of Yapen Islands[24]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
WikiProject Govdirectory[31]
Population
+106827[23]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 106,827 GeoNames 114,210 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Replaces
Yapen Waropen[25]
Statistics Indonesia area code
9408[26]
🏷️ Also known as
en Yapen Islands Regency en Yapen Islands de Yapen Inseln de Kepulauan Yapen es Islas Yapen es Yapen Waropen fr Îles Yapen id Kab. Kep. Yapen id Kab. Kepulauan Yapen id Kabupaten Japen Waropen id Kabupaten Kepulauan Yapen id Kabupaten Yapen Waropen id Kab. Yapen Waropen id Yapen Waropen it Reggenza delle Isole Yapen ja ヤーペン諸島県 zh 亚彭群岛县
🔖 Identifiers · 12
VIAF cluster ID
5882154075999411860007
Library of Congress authority ID
no2018137333
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Yapen.JPG ↗
Administrative code of Indonesia
91.05
Freebase ID
/m/063_8t2
GeoNames ID
9172045
INaturalist place ID
49347
OpenStreetMap relation ID
7754458
Related category
Category:District in Yapen Islands Regency
Topic's main category
Category:Yapen Islands Regency
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJxxdxY68Fr7Wg8r4qGT73
Yale LUX ID
place/ebea4cfb-f19b-49c8-bd2f-408d126be8df

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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 4
Yapen Island, Schouten Islands, Yerui Island, Yapen rain forests
People born here 3
Yakob Sayuri, Freddy Numberi, Yance Sayuri
Capital 1
Serui Kota
Country 1
Indonesia
Instance of 1
regency of Indonesia
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Papua
On focus list of Wikimedia project 1
WikiProject Govdirectory
← Capital of 1
Serui Kota
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Papua
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Summary

Yapen Islands is a regency of Indonesia[1].

Related Entities

Indonesia WikiProject Govdirectory

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Papua Province Administrative Division Data and Code 2015. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 12 of 1969. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 100.1.1-6117 Of 2022. wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree 300.2.2-2138 of 2025. wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . archive.org. archive.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . The Master Book of Indonesian Territory Data 2015. wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . sig.bps.go.id. Retrieved . sig.bps.go.id. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [29] ↑ . Statistics Indonesia Regulation Number 5 Of 2021. wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . Indonesian Government Regulation Number 40 of 2008. wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . govdirectory.org. Retrieved . govdirectory.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 23d ago · FenyMufyd · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 15
    Executive body → Wikidata item
    Wikipedia languages → ['ban', 'bew', 'ceb', 'de', 'en', 'fr', 'id', 'it', 'jv', 'ms', 'pt', 'sv', 'ur'
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/59105|batch #59105]]: executive body"
  2. 5w ago · FenyMufyd · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Highest judicial authority → District Court of Serui
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56462|batch #56462]]: kabupaten/kota highest judicial authority"
  3. 10w ago · FenyMufyd · 2026-08-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Legislative body → Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Kabupaten Kepulauan Yapen
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/48356|batch #48356]]: add legislative branch to each kabkot"
  4. 15w ago · Dirac · 2026-07-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Image → Yapen.JPG
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Image: Yapen.JPG, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/261402|batch #261402]]"
  5. 26w ago · Danil Satria · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Name → {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'Kepulauan Yapen'}, {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'Yapen Waropen'}
    Replaces → —
    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+705'}
    Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+2050'}
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-and-other-short:0||mul */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/29483|batch #29483]]: name stated in Indonesian Minister of Home Affairs Decree Number 050-145 o"
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