Created on 4 March 1726, the Grobogan Regency has an area of 2,022.25 km2, and is the second largest regency in the Central Java Province. It had a population of 1,308,696 at the 2010 census,[2] 1,351,429 at the Intermediate census of 2015 and 1,453,526 at the 2020 census.[3] Its capital is the town of Purwodadi.