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Yalimo Regency is one of the regencies in the Indonesian province of Highland Papua. It covers an area of 4,320.29 km3, and had a population at the 2010 Census of 50,763 which doubled to reach 101,973 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 106,740 (comprising 56,520 males and 50,230 females). The administrative centre is at Elelim. The indigenous inhabitants of this well-forested mountainous area are the Yali people.

Sejarah Kabupaten Yalimo sangat berhubungan erat dengan sejarah perkembangan gereja di wilayah ini, tetapi sejak tahun 1960-an misionaris mulai berdatangan dan mulai melakukan penginjilan di daerah ini.

Elelim, the seat of the regency has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy rainfall all year round.