Subdistricts of East Timor
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The districts
Districts of East Timor
||East Timor is divided into thirteen administrative districts. The districts are divided into subdistricts, and further subdivided into sucos.The borders between Cova-Lima and Ainaro and between Baucau and Viqueque were changed in 2003.-References:...

 of East Timor
East Timor
The Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, commonly known as East Timor , is a state in Southeast Asia. It comprises the eastern half of the island of Timor, the nearby islands of Atauro and Jaco, and Oecusse, an exclave on the northwestern side of the island, within Indonesian West Timor...

 are divided into 65 subdistricts, with one designated as the capital. Each subdistrict is divided into several villages (sucos), the smallest political division of East Timor. The subdistricts are listed below, by district:

Aileu District

  • Aileu
    Aileu
    Aileu is the main township in Aileu District, East Timor. It is located 47km southwest of Dili, the national capital, Dili and has a population of 17,356....

     (capital)
  • Laulara
    Laulara
    Laulara is a town and subdistrict in the Aileu District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 5,448.-Reference:*...

  • Lequidoe
    Lequidoe
    Lequidoe is a town and subdistrict in the Aileu District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 5,819.-Reference:*...

  • Remexio
    Remexio
    Remexio is a town and subdistrict in the Aileu District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 9.493....



Ainaro District

  • Ainaro
    Ainaro
    Ainaro is a town in East Timor, the capital of the Ainaro District, and is located in the southwest part of the country. The subdistrict has a population of approximately 12,000 people. It contains the small mountain town of Ainaro, the district capital, along with the villages of Soro, Maununo,...

     (capital)
  • Hato-Udo
  • Hatu-Builico
    Hatu-Builico
    Hatu Builico is a town and subdistrict in the Ainaro District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 10,807.-Reference:*...

  • Maubisse
    Maubisse
    Maubisse is a town, suco and subdistrict in Ainaro District, East Timor. The suco has 4,947 inhabitants ....



Baucau District

  • Baguia
  • Baucau
    Baucau
    Baucau is the second-largest city in East Timor, after Dili, the capital, which lies 122 km east of Dili.Baucau has about 16,000 inhabitants, and is the capital of Baucau, located in the eastern part of the country...

     (capital)
  • Laga
    Laga (East Timor)
    Laga is a city and subdistrict in Baucau District, East Timor....

  • Quelicai
  • Vemasse
    Vemasse
    Vemasse is a town and subdistrict in the Baucau District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 8,886.-Reference:*...

  • Venilale
    Venilale
    Venilale is a city and subdistricts in Baucau District, East Timor....



Bobonaro District

  • Atabae
    Atabae (subdistrict)
    Atabae is a subdistrict and suco in the Bobonaro District of East Timor. Its population at the 2010 census was 10,976. The capital of the subdistrict is Aidabaleten, which is sometimes wrongly named Atabae, too....

  • Balibó
    Balibo
    Balibo is a town in East Timor situated approximately from the Indonesian border. It is located in the subdistrict of Balibo, Bobonaro District....

  • Bobonaro
  • Cailaco
    Cailaco
    Cailaco is a town and subdistrict in the Bobonaro District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 8,374.-Reference:*...

  • Lolotoe
    Lolotoe
    Lolotoe is a city in Bobonaro District, East Timor. It is the capitel of Lolotoe subdistrict, which has 7,021 inhabitants. Most of them are cultivating coffee....

  • Maliana
    Maliana
    Maliana is a city in East Timor, 149 km southwest of Dili, the national capital. It has a population of 22,000. It is the capital of the district of Bobonaro and subdistrict of Maliana, and is located just a few kilometers from the border with Indonesia...

     (capital)


Cova Lima District

  • Fatululic
  • Fatumean
    Fatumean
    Fatumean is a subdistrict in the Cova Lima District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 3,346. Capital is Fatumea.-Reference:*...

  • Fohorem
    Fohorem
    Fohorem is a subdistrict in Cova Lima District, East Timor. Capital is Fohoren.- References :...

  • Maucatar
    Maucatar
    Maucatar is a town and subdistrict in the Cova Lima District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 5,876.-Reference:*...

  • Suai
    Suai
    Suai is a city in East Timor. It has a population of 23,000 and is located 138 km to the southwest of Dili, the national capital. Suai is the capital of the Cova Lima district, which is in the southwest of the country. It is located just a few kilometers from the Timor Sea, on the south side of the...

     (capital)
  • Tilomar
    Tilomar
    Tilomar is a city and subdistrict in Cova Lima District, East Timor....

  • Zumalai
    Zumalai
    Zumalai is a city and subdistrict in East Timor. It is part of Cova Lima District since 2003. Before, it was in Ainaro District....



Dili District

  • Atauro
  • Cristo Rei
    Cristo Rei
    Cristo Rei is a town and subdistrict in the Dili District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 43,909.-Reference:*...

  • Dom Aleixo
    Dom Aleixo
    Dom Aleixo is a town and subdistrict in the Dili District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 71,489.-Reference:*...

  • Metinaro
    Metinaro
    Metinaro is a city in Dili District, East Timor. The coast has a wonderful diving area with a colourful world of animals.Metinaro is also the home of the East Timor's 1st Battalion F-FDTL . Located at the Metinaro Barracks is also the Recruit Training Centre and the Defence Force School of Languages...

  • Nain Feto
    Nain Feto
    Nain Feto is a town and subdistrict in the Dili District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 18,693.-Reference:*...

  • Vera Cruz
    Vera Cruz (East Timor)
    Vera Cruz is a subdistrict in the Dili District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 28,178.-Reference:*...



Ermera District

  • Atsabe
    Atsabe
    Atsabe is a town and subdistrict in the Ermera District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 16,037....

  • Ermera
    Ermera
    Ermera is one of the districts of East Timor, located in the west-central part of the country. It has a population of 103,169 and an area of 746 km2. Its capital is Gleno, which is located 30 km to the southwest of the national capital, Dili...

    (Gleno - Capital)
  • Hatólia
  • Letefoho
    Letefoho
    Letefoho is a town and subdistrict in the Ermera District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 19,917.-Reference:*...

  • Railaco
    Railaco
    Railaco is a town and subdistrict in the Ermera District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 9,293.-Reference:*...



Lautém District

  • Iliomar
    Iliomar
    Iliomar is a town and subdistrict in the Lautém District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 6,726.-Reference:*...

  • Lautém
    Lautém (city)
    Lautém is a town and subdistrict in the Lautém District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 13,866.-Reference:*...

  • Lospalos
    Lospalos
    Lospalos is a city in East Timor, 248 km to the east of Dili, the national capital. Lospalos has a population of 17,186 and is the capital of the district of Lautém and the subdistrict of Lospalos...

     (capital)
  • Luro
    Luro
    Luro is a subdistrict and the name of two towns there in the Lautém District of East Timor. Its population at the 2010 census was 5,367, at the 2004 census was 6,205.- Reference :*...

  • Tutuala
    Tutuala
    Tutuala is a town and subdistrict in the Lautém District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 3,707....



Liquiçá District

  • Bazartete
    Bazartete
    Bazartete is a village in East Timor, comprising a subdistrict of Liquiçá district, located on a mountain top deep in the rain forest, just to the southeast of Liquiçá township...

  • Liquiçá
    Liquiçá
    Liquiçá is a coastal city in East Timor, 32 km to the west of Dili, the national capital. Liquiçá is the capital of Liquiçá district...

     (capital)
  • Maubara
    Maubara
    Maubara is a village in East Timor and is a subdistrict of the district of Liquiçá, just west of the city of Liquiçá.During the beginning of the Portuguese occupation, it was taken by the Netherlands. There is a historic Dutch fort, located at the entrance to the village on the seaside overlooking...



Manatuto District

  • Barique
    Barique (East Timor)
    Bariqu is a town and subdistrict in the Manatuto District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 4,781.-Reference:*...

  • Laclo
    Laclo
    Laclo is a town and subdistrict in the Manatuto District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 7,558.-Reference:*...

  • Laclubar
    Laclubar
    Laclubar is a town and subdistrict in the Manatuto District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 8,034.-Reference:*...

  • Laleia
    Laleia
    Laleia is a town and subdistrict in the Manatuto District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 3,205.-Reference:*...

  • Manatuto
    Manatuto
    Manatuto is a city and one of the subdistricts of Manatuto District/East Timor.-The city:Manatuto Vila has 1,924 inhabitants and is capital of the subdistrict and district Manatuto. It is on the north coast of Timor, located 64 km to the east of Dili, the national capital, on the way to Baucau...

     (capital)
  • Soibada
    Soibada
    Soibada is a town and subdistrict in the Manatuto District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 2,692.-Reference:*...



Manufahi District

  • Alas
    Alas (East Timor)
    Alas is a town and subdistrict in the Manufahi District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 6,485....

  • Fatuberlio
    Fatuberlio
    Fatuberliu is a town and subdistrict in the Manufahi District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 6,326.-Reference:*...

  • Same
    Same (East Timor)
    Same is a city and subdistrict in the interior of East Timor, 81 km south of Dili, the national capital. Same has a population of 25,000 and is the capital of the district of Manufahi, which was known as the district of Same in Portuguese Timor....

     (capital)
  • Turiscai
    Turiscai
    Turiscai is a town and subdistrict in the Manufahi District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 6,073.-Reference:*...



Oecusse District
Oecusse District
Oecusse is a district of East Timor. It is a coastal exclave in the western part of the island of Timor, separated from the rest of East Timor by West Timor, which is part of the province of Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia, and which surrounds Oecusse in all directions except the north, where it...

  • Nitibe
    Nitibe
    Nitibe is a small town in Nitibe subdistrict, in the East Timor exclave of Oecusse. It is located inland in the west of the exclave.-References:*Wheeler, T. East Timor. Footscray, VIC: Lonely Planet....

  • Oesilo
    Oesilo
    Oesilo is a small town and sub-district in the East Timor exclave of Oecussi-Ambeno. It is located in the southeast of the exclave, close to the border with Indonesia.-References:*Wheeler, T. East Timor. Footscray, VIC: Lonely Planet....

  • Pante Macassar
    Pante Macassar
    Pante Macassar is a city and subdistrict on the north coast of East Timor, 281 km to the west of Dili, the nation's capital. It has a population of 4,730 . It is the capital of the Oecusse exclave .The name literally means "beach of Makasar," alluding to the erstwhile trade with Makasar in Sulawesi...

     (capital)
  • Passabe
    Passabe
    Passabe is a subdistrict of the Oecusse District of East Timor, which is an enclave surrounded by Indonesian West Timor. In the 2004 census it had a population of 7,531 people in 1,153 households. Passabe is a small village in the subdistrict, very near the Indonesian border...



Viqueque District

  • Lacluta
    Lacluta
    Lacluta is a town and subdistrict in the Viqueque District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 5,187.-Reference:*...

  • Ossu
    Õssu
    Õssu is a village in Ülenurme Parish, Tartu County, Estonia. It borders the city of Tartu to the east and is located by the Tartu–Viljandi road. Õssu has a population of 163 ....

  • Uato-Lari
    Uato-Lari
    Uato-Lari is a town and subdistrict in the Viqueque District of East Timor. Its population at the 2010 census was 18,145.- References :...

  • Uatucarbau
    Uatucarbau
    Uatucarbau is a town and subdistrict in the Viqueque District of East Timor. Its population at the 2004 census was 6,725.-Reference:*...

  • Viqueque
    Viqueque
    Viqueque is a city in the south-east of East Timor, 183 km from Dili, the national capital. Viqueque is the capital of the district of Viqueque and subdistrict of Viqueque, in the eastern part of the country with five subdistricts under its control, they are: Uatu-Lari, Uatu-Carbau, Viqueque,...

     (capital)


See also

  • Districts of East Timor
    Districts of East Timor
    ||East Timor is divided into thirteen administrative districts. The districts are divided into subdistricts, and further subdivided into sucos.The borders between Cova-Lima and Ainaro and between Baucau and Viqueque were changed in 2003.-References:...

  • Sucos of East Timor
    Sucos of East Timor
    The subdistricts of East Timor are subdivided into 442 sucos and 2,336 towns, villages and hamlets . -District Aileu:* Subdistrict Aileu** Suco Aisirimou** Suco Bandudatu** Suco Fahiria** Suco Fatubosa** Suco Hoholau** Suco Lahae...

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