Bantul
{{Short description|Town and district in Yogyakarta Province, Indonesia}}
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{{distinguish|Banjul}}
File:Bantul, Bantul Location Map.png]]
Bantul is a town and district, and the capital of Bantul Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.[http://www.travelpost.com/AS/Indonesia/Yogyakarta/Bantul/6658721 Bantul, Indonesia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927011955/http://www.travelpost.com/AS/Indonesia/Yogyakarta/Bantul/6658721 |date=2007-09-27 }}. travelpost.com The district (kapanewon) covers an area of {{cvt|21.95|km2}} and had a population of 64,360 at the 2020 Census.Badan Puysat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. It is a bustling town about {{cvt|10|km}} to the south of Yogyakarta, easily reached by regular minibuses from the main Yogyakarta bus station. Bantul has numerous firms and agencies (service stations and garages, banks, schools, medical clinics, government offices) which supply services to the surrounding area. A main road runs down from Yogyakarta through Bantul to the busy beach area of Parangtritis visited by many tourists from Yogyakarta each weekend.
2006 earthquake
{{Main|2006 Yogyakarta earthquake}}
On 27 May 2006 an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the moment magnitude scale struck near Java's southern coast causing widespread damage. Bantul Regency was the region most affected by the disaster. More than 2,000 residents of Bantul were killed, thousands of its residents injured, and 80% of its homes damaged or destroyed.[https://www.wisataidn.com/tempat-wisata-di-jogja/ Tempat Wisata di Jogja ]{{cite news|last1=Sturcke|first1=James|title=3,500 dead in Java earthquake|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/may/27/indonesia.jamessturcke|access-date=March 10, 2018|newspaper=The Guardian|date=May 27, 2006}}
Climate
Bantul has a tropical monsoon climate (Am) with moderate to little rainfall from June to October and heavy to very heavy rainfall from November to May.
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|width = auto
| location = Bantul
| metric first = Yes
| single line = Yes
| Jan high C = 30.4
| Feb high C = 30.7
| Mar high C = 30.9
| Apr high C = 31.7
| May high C = 31.5
| Jun high C = 31.3
| Jul high C = 30.5
| Aug high C = 30.9
| Sep high C = 31.2
| Oct high C = 31.6
| Nov high C = 31.0
| Dec high C = 30.6
| Jan mean C = 26.9
| Feb mean C = 26.9
| Mar mean C = 27.1
| Apr mean C = 27.5
| May mean C = 27.2
| Jun mean C = 26.5
| Jul mean C = 25.6
| Aug mean C = 25.8
| Sep mean C = 26.6
| Oct mean C = 27.2
| Nov mean C = 27.1
| Dec mean C = 27.0
| year mean C =
| Jan low C = 23.4
| Feb low C = 23.2
| Mar low C = 23.4
| Apr low C = 23.4
| May low C = 23.0
| Jun low C = 21.8
| Jul low C = 20.8
| Aug low C = 20.8
| Sep low C = 22.0
| Oct low C = 22.9
| Nov low C = 23.3
| Dec low C = 23.4
|rain colour=green
|Jan rain mm=348
|Feb rain mm=301
|Mar rain mm=317
|Apr rain mm=125
|May rain mm=125
|Jun rain mm=50
|Jul rain mm=34
|Aug rain mm=21
|Sep rain mm=34
|Oct rain mm=122
|Nov rain mm=217
|Dec rain mm=267
|source 1 = Climate-Data.org{{cite web
|url = https://en.climate-data.org/location/620343/
|title = Climate: Bantul
|publisher=Climate-Data.org
|access-date = 13 November 2020}}
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References
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Category:Districts of the Special Region of Yogyakarta
Category:Regency seats of the Special Region of Yogyakarta
Category:Geography of the Special Region of Yogyakarta
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