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Denpasar Metropolitan Area

Denpasar metropolitan area (Indonesian: Wilayah metropolitan Denpasar; Balinese: Wawengkon métropolitan Dénpasar) or officially Sarbagita; (acronym of "Denpasar-Badung-Gianyar-Tabanan") is a metropolitan area located in Indonesia. This area includes Denpasar city and its surrounding areas such as Badung Regency, Gianyar Regency, and Tabanan Regency. This region of Bali province. Sarbagita is the largest metropolitan area in the Nusa Tenggara Islands and the second largest in the Eastern Indonesia Region after the Makassar metropolitan area in South Sulawesi. It has an area of 1,928.28 km, and at the 2023 estimate had a population of 2,301,887

Definition

The national government regards the Denpasar Metropolitan Area as including Denpasar city, Badung Regency, Gianyar Regency, and Tabanan Regency. This area is on the international trade route such as Lombok Strait and is directly adjacent to Indian Ocean.

Geography

Denpasar is a coastal city with island and bays, islets, and peninsulas, located southern part of Bali Island, eastern part of Indian Ocean. The Lombok Strait separates Bali and Lombok.

Infrastructure

I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport
Trans Sarbagita bus

Trans Sarbagita is the cheapest public transportation in Denpasar. It began to operate in February 2011.The price for one ride is Rp2,500 for students and Rp3,500 for the public. Trans Sarbagita operates from 06:00 to 19:00.

Bali Mandara Toll Road

On 21 December 2011, construction started on the Nusa Dua-Benoa-Ngurah Rai International Airport toll road, will provide a special lane for motorcycles. This has been done by seven state-owned enterprises led by PT Jasa Marga with 60% of the shares. PT Jasa Marga Bali Tol will construct the 9.91-kilometre-long (6.16-mile) toll road (totally 12.7 kilometres (7.89 miles) with access road). The construction is estimated to cost Rp.2.49 trillion ($273.9 million). The project goes through 2 kilometres (1 mile) of mangrove forest and through 2.3 kilometres (1.4 miles) of beach, both within 5.4 hectares (13 acres) area. The elevated toll road is built over the mangrove forest on 18,000 concrete pillars that occupied two hectares of mangrove forest. This was compensated by the planting of 300,000 mangrove trees along the road. On 23 September 2013, the Bali Mandara Toll Road was opened, with the Dewa Ruci Junction (Simpang Siur) underpass being opened previously.

Tourism

Over 5.2 million international tourists visited Bali in 2023. Denpasar is the busiest entry port to Indonesia ahead of Jakarta and Batam. In 2019, around 1.3 million foreign tourists came from Australia, 1.1 million from China and 0.4 million from India. Meanwhile 9.5 million domestic tourists visited Bali in 2023.

Demographics

The metropolitan area is divided into four regencies (kabupaten) and one city (kota). These are, with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census and the 2020 census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2023 and the Human Development Index for each regency and city.

Name of
City or
Regency
Capital Area
in
km
Pop'n
2000
Census
Pop'n
2010
Census
Pop'n
2020
Census
Pop'n
2023
Estimate
HDI
2023 estimate
Density
(per km)
2023
Denpasar City Denpasar 127.78 532,440 788,589 725,314 748,397 0.847 (Very High) 5,856.91
Badung Regency Mangupura 418.62 345,863 543,332 548,191 563,335 0.831 (Very High) 1,345.69
Gianyar Regency Gianyar 368.00 393,155 469,777 515,344 524,022 0.792 (High) 1,423.97
Tabanan Regency Tabanan 1,013.88 376,030 420,913 461,630 466,132 0.774 (High) 459.75
Total 1,928.28 1,647,488 2,222,611 2,250,479 2,301,887 0.816 (Very High) 1,193.75

See also

References

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  2. ^ Official Census in Mid 2023 by Kemendagri
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