1. The province is divided into seven regencies: Bangka, Bangka Barat, Bangka Selatan, Bangka Tengah, Belitung, Belitung Timur and Pangkalpinang.

2. At the 2010 census Palu had a population of around 336,300, not including those living in neighboring regencies.

3. Following the implementation of regional autonomy measures in 2001, regencies and cities have become key administrative units, responsible for providing most government services.

4. A Bagnio was originally a bath or bath-house. The term was then used to name the prison for hostages in Istanbul, which was near the bath-house, and thereafter all the slave prisons in the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary regencies.