 The area has witnessed significant population growth.Two areas formerly within the Regency have been split off as autonomous cities; on 20 April 1999, the city of Depok was unified with some neighbouring districts of Bogor Regency to form an autonomous city of Depok (independent of the Regency); and Bogor city is also an autonomous city (similarly independent of the Regency).In the 2010 census the Regency (minus the autonomous cities) counted 4,770,744 people, of which 2,450,426 are male.