Central Aceh Regency

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| official_name = Central Aceh Regency

| native_name = Kabupaten Aceh Tengah

| native_name_lang = id

| image_skyline = Laut Tawar Lake.jpg

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| image_caption = Laut Tawar Lake

| type = Regency

| image_seal = Lambang Kabupaten Aceh Tengah.png

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| motto = Keramat Meupakat
(Honourable on consensus)

| image_map = Lokasi Aceh Kabupaten Aceh Tengah.svg

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| map_caption = Location within Aceh

| coordinates = {{coord|4|31|N|96|52|E|region:ID-AC_type:adm2nd|display=inline,title}}

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| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{flag|Indonesia}}

| subdivision_type1 = Region

| subdivision_name1 = Sumatra

| established_title = Established

| established_date = 1956

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| seat_type = Regency seat

| seat = Takengon

| leader_title = Regent

| leader_name = Teuku Mirzuan

| area_footnotes =

| area_total_km2 = 4527.58

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| population_as_of = mid 2023 estimate

| population_total = 223833

| population_density_km2 = auto

| population_footnotes = Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, Kabupaten Aceh Tengah Dalam Angka 2024 (Katalog-BPS 1102001.1104)

| timezone1 = IWST

| utc_offset1 = +7

| area_code = (+62) 643

| website = {{URL|http://www.acehtengahkab.go.id/|acehtengahkab.go.id}}

| footnotes =

| pushpin_map = Indonesia_Aceh#Indonesia_Sumatra North#Indonesia_Sumatra#Indonesia

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Aceh, Northern Sumatra, Sumatra and Indonesia

| subdivision_type2 = Province

| subdivision_name2 = {{flag|Aceh}}

| leader_title1 = Vice Regent

| leader_name1 = Vacant

| area_code_type = Area code

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Central Aceh Regency ({{langx|id|Kabupaten Aceh Tengah}}) is a regency in Aceh province of Indonesia. It is located on Sumatra island. Formerly this regency covered a much larger area; on 4 June 1974, the Southeast Aceh Regency was separated from the Central Aceh Regency,{{cite book|last=Iwabuchi|first=Akifumi|title=The people of the Alas Valley: a study of an ethnic group of Northern Sumatra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTJwAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=20 December 2010|year=1994|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-827902-0}} and on 18 December 2003 the Bener Meriah Regency was separated from the remaining Central Aceh Regency.

The remaining regency covers an area of 4,527.58 square kilometres and had a population of 175,527 according to the 2010 census,Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. which rose to 215,576 at the 2020 Census;Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 223,833 - comprising 113,388 males and 110,445 females.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, Kabupaten Aceh Tengah Dalam Angka 2024 (Katalog-BPS 1102001.1104) Most of its inhabitants are Gayo. Central Aceh is famous for its Lake Laut Tawar. Its capital is Takengon, in Lut Tawar District.

The residual regency is the main centre of coffee production within Aceh province and is home to the Gayo people who are mostly concentrated in this regency and in the neighbouring Bener Meriah Regency and Gayo Lues Regency.{{cite book|author1=Indonesia. Departemen Penerangan|author2=Japenpa Foreign Languages Publishing Institute|title=Indonesia handbook|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uKwuAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=20 December 2010|year=1975|publisher=Dept. of Information, Republic of Indonesia.|page=91}}{{cite book|author=Library Information and Research Service|title=The Middle East, abstracts and index|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q5ptAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=20 December 2010|year=2004|publisher=Northumberland Press}}