Kandangan is a district and the regency seat of South Hulu Sungai Regency in South Kalimantan province. The district covers an area of 106.71 square kilometres. According to the mid 2022 official estimates, the population of the district was 49,604 people spread across 4 urban kelurahan and 14 rural villages (desa).

South Hulu Sungai Regency is one of the regencies (kabupaten) in South Kalimantan province, Indonesia. It had an area of 1,804.94 km2, and a population of 212,485 at the 2010 Census and 228,006 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 237.319. The capital of the regency is the town of Kandangan, which is famous for its culinary ketupat Kandangan.