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Kabupaten Lombok Utara adalah kabupaten di bagian utara Pulau Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Indonesia. Kabupaten ini dibentuk berdasarkan Undang-Undang Nomor 26 Tahun 2008 yang merupakan pemekaran dari Kabupaten Lombok Barat. Kabupaten dengan semboyan ini merupakan kabupaten termuda di NTB yang memiliki luas 776,25 km², dan secara geografis berada di Kaki Utara Gunung Rinjani. Daerah ini memiliki sejumlah objek Wisata yang cukup terkenal di mancanegara, seperti tiga gili (Gili Air, Gili Meno, Gili Trawangan), Air Terjun Sendang Gila (Desa Senaru, Bayan), serta keindahan Danau Segara Anak yang ada di Lereng Gunung Rinjani.

The Sasak people are the indigenous people of Lombok and form the majority of north Lombok's residents. north Lombok is also home to people of Balinese, Chinese, Tionghoa-peranakan people of mixed Indonesian and Chinese descent and small number of Arab Indonesian people, mainly of Yemeni descent who originally settled in the early port city of Ampenan.

Traditional male dancers with drums, Lombok

Most people in North Lombok normally the Sasak language. Bahasa Sasak is the native language of the indigenous people of Lombok. Bahasa Indonesian is the language most widely used in everyday interactions at places such as the larger hotels and in the government offices. When at home or a place of recreation North Lombok residents tend to use local northern Lombok dialects of the Sasak language.

The Regency of West Lombok was established in 1958 and then included the northwestern section of Lombok, comprising the five West Coast districts north of Ampenan and Sengigi - Pemenang, Tanjung, Gangga, Kayangan and Bayan.

In 1993 the West Lombok Regency was separated into two separate Regencies. As a consequence of the formation of the Government of Mataram city in year 2000, the capital of West Lombok Regency was moved from Mataram, West Lombok to Gerung in the south of the Regency. This move resulted the five districts in the northwestern end of the island being too far away from the services of the West Lombok Regency at Gerung. Subsequently, and with the full support of the local government of West Lombok Regency, North Lombok established its own regional government situated at Tanjung and now functions autonomously from the West Lombok Regency. The Regency was ratified by Law Number 26 Year 2008, creating the North Lombok Regency from within the existing boundaries of the West Lombok Regency.

Central to the regency is Mount Rinjani (Gunung Rinjani) which at 3,726 m is the third highest mountain and the second largest volcano in the country. It is an active volcano; the oldest recorded historical eruption was in 1847 and last eruption was in May 2010. Gunung Rinjani Observation Post Rinjani Sembalun is located in the village of Lawang, Sub Sembalun 12.5 km (4000 feet) northeast of Gunung Rinjani. Observers at this post monitor both Gunung Rinjani and Gunung Barujari

Rinjani erupted three times on 22 May 2010 with activity continuing until early on 23 May. According to the volcano's official monitoring agency, ash from Mount Barujari was reported as rising up to two km into the atmosphere and damaged crops. The volcano did not threaten villagers at that time. Lava flowed into the caldera lake, pushing its temperature up from 21 °C to 35 °C, while smoke spread 12 km. In February 2010 observers at the Gunung Rinjani Observation Post located 12.5 km (4000 feet) NE of Rinjani saw one whitish-colored plume that rose from the volcano. Dense whitish plumes (and possibly brown) rose - in March 2010 on 26 occasions and as high as in April 2010 on 41 occasions. Plumes seen on 1 and 2 May 2010 were "chocolate" in color and rose a maximum height of. From February 2010 through April 2010 seismicity decreased, although the maximum amplitude of earthquakes increased. CVGHM (Center of Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation) also noted that ash eruptions and ejected incandescent material fell within Rinjani caldera, but some ash was blown out of the caldera.

On 5 August 2018, at 6.46 pm local time a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked the island of Lombok and parts of nearby Bali causing particularly severe damage in North Lombok. A total of 105 people were reported to have been killed, over 70 of whom died in North Lombok. A foreshock occurred on July 29, 2018, with a moment magnitude of 6.4 which also caused significant damage and claimed the lives of 20 people and injured hundreds more. Local authorities were active after the earthquake, aiming to provide food supplies and other forms of relief to the affected areas. Following the quake, the Indonesian National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB, or Badan Nasional Penanggulanan Bencana) issued regular reports in Indonesian providing information about likely risks and about relief efforts.

Later tallies raised the death toll in the regency to over 300, with the BNPB estimating that 198,846 people were displaced by the earthquake - over 90% of the regency's population.

Lombok Utara terbagi oleh daerah pegunungan, gugusan pegunungan yang membentang dari Kecamatan Bayan sampai Pemenang. Gugusan pegunungan ini merupakan sumber air sungai yang mengalir ke wilayah-wilayah daratan dan bermuara di sepanjang pesisir pantai. Letak Lombok Utara strategis karena terletak pada daerah tujuan pariwisata sedangkan jalur perhubungan laut dengan Selat Lombok sebagai jalur perhubungan laut, dari arah timur tengah untuk lalu lintas bahan bakar minyak dan dari Australia berupa mineral logam ke Asia Pasifik. Di wilayah Lombok Utara terdapat gugusan pulau-pulau kecil yang cukup terkenal dengan wisata alam laut dan pantainya yakni, Gili Air, Gili Meno, dan Gili Trawangan.

Kabupaten Lombok Utara menjadi salah satu dari 10 (sepuluh) Kabupaten/Kota di Provinsi Nusa Tenggara Barat, yang posisinya terletak di bagian utara pulau lombok dengan batas-batas wilayah sebagai berikut:

Kabupaten Lombok Utara mempunyai luas wilayah daratan yakni seluas 776,25 Km², dan secara administrastif terbagi dalam 5 (lima) Kecamatan dan 43 desa, yang mana Kecamatan Bayan memiliki luas wilayah terbesar dengan luas wilayah 329,10 Km² dan terkecil adalah Kecamatan Pemenang dengan luas wilayah 81,09 Km².

Berdasarkan data dari Badan Metereologi Klimatologi dan Geofisika (BMKG), Kabupaten Lombok Utara tergolong daerah yang beriklim tropis basah dan kering (Aw) dengan temperatur berkisar antara 22° Celsius hingga 32° Celsius. Seperti wilayah lain di Indonesia, wilayah kabupaten Lombok Utara mempunyai dua musim, yaitu musim penghujan dan musim kemarau. Musim penghujan di wilayah Lombok Utara dipengaruhi oleh angin monsun baratan yang bersifat lembap, basah, dan banyak membawa uap air atau awan hujan dan angin monsun baratan berlangsung antara periode November hingga April dengan puncaknya berlangsung antara bulan Januari dan Februari. Sementara itu, musim kemarau di wilayah Lombok Utara dipengaruhi angin monsun timuran yang bersifat kering dan biasanya berlangsung pada periode Mei hingga Oktober dengan puncaknya antara bulan Juli dan Agustus. Tingkat kelembapan relatif di wilayah Lombok Utara sendiri terbilang tinggi yaitu berkisar antara 60%-90%.