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West Manggarai Regency is one of the eight regencies which comprise the island of Flores, located in the province of East Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Timur) in Indonesia. The Regency was created on 25 February 2003 by the separation off of the western districts from Manggarai Regency. It covers a land area of 3,129.00 km2, and had a population of 221,703 at the 2010 census, rising to 251,689 at the 2015 Intermediate census and to 256,317 at the 2020 census. The official estimate as at mid 2025 was 281,692 (comprising 141,320 males and 140,372 females). The regency's capital is the town of Labuan Bajo.

The Manggarai people are the majority and native population of West Manggarai Regency. They speak the Manggarai language, which consists of several dialects. In addition, there are also Komodo people who live on the Komodo Island, to the west, but their population is known to be extinct. Where the current population is a mixture of Bimanese, Manggarai, Buginese, Makassarese, and Bajau peoples. The Bajau people are known to have migrated from the Sulu Archipelago in what is now the Philippines, where they mostly inhabit Labuan Bajo and Komodo Island in West Manggarai.

Notes: "Others" is a classification of various other ethnic groups that are not recorded (2010 census).

The regency includes the western portion of Flores island (Pulau Flores) and several small islands mainly lying to the west of it, including the two largest islands, Komodo (Pulau Komodo) and Rinca (Pulau Rinca) as well as others such as Greater Seraya (Pulau Seraya Besar), Lesser Seraya (Pulau Seraya Kecil), Bidadari (Pulau Bidadari) and Longgos (Pulau Longgos). The total area of West Manggarai Regency is, consisting of a land area of and a sea area of.