North Sumatra
Name Area ( km ) Population Census 2010 Population Census 2015 Population Estimate 2019 Capital HDI 2019 Estimates
Gunungsitoli City 280.8 126,202 135,868 139,094 Gunungsitoli 0.693 ( Medium )
Nias Regency 809.7 131,377 136,079 152,774 Gidó 0.616 ( Medium )
North Nias Regency ( Nias Utara ) 1,203.7 127,244 133,728 146,663 Lotu 0.619 ( Medium )
South Nias Regency # ( Nias Selatan ) 1,825.5 289,708 307,980 360,683 Teluk Dalam 0.615 ( Medium )
West Nias Regency ( Nias Barat ) 473.7 81,807 84,851 92,154 Lahomi 0.611 ( Medium )
Governance -- Administrative divisions
Omo Sebua , means the big house . Is a traditional house from South Nias . It was king of Tano Niha who lived in it , located in Bawomataluo This region contains the substantial island of Nias and various small offshore islands , including the Batu Islands to the south which form part of South Nias Regency .
North Sumatra (Indonesian: Sumatra Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It consists of a large northwestern belt of the island of Sumatra and its capital is Medan. North Sumatra is the fourth most-populous province after West Java, East Java and Central Java - it covers an area of 72,981 sq.km, and at the Census of 2015 it had a population of 13,923,262; the latest official estimate as at mid 2019 is 14,639,400.