Bantam contains five native regencies or territorial divisions, namely, Serang, Anjer, Pandeglang, Charingin, Lebak.
The chief town, Serang, is situated 22 m.
The natives are Sundanese, except in the northern or Serang division, where they are Javanese.
The port of Serang is Karangantu, on Bantam Bay, and close by is the old ruined town of Bantam, once the capital of the kingdom of Bantam, and before the foundation of Batavia the principal commercial port of the Dutch East India Company.
The principal towns are Serang, the capital of the residency, Chilegon, Pandeglang, Menes and Rangkas Betug.
Two years later, however, they removed their chief settlement to the more elevated station of Serang, or Ceram, 7 m.