 Asmat Regency consists of an area of 31,983.69 km2, and had a population of 76,577 at the 2010 Census and 88,373 at the 2015 Intermediate Census, mostly from the Asmat ethnic group.The administrative centre of the regency is the town of Agats.A measles outbreak and famine killed at least 72 people in Asmat regency in early 2018, during which 652 children were affected by measles and 223 suffered from malnutrition.