Meranti Islands Regency
Meranti Islands (Kepulauan Meranti) is an archipelago forming a regency (kabupaten) of Riau Province, and lies off the eastern coast of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. It was created on 19 December 2008 by the separating of this archipelago from the mainland regency of Bengkalis. The regency comprises the islands of Tebing Tinggi, Rangsang, Padang and Merbau, together with minor offshore islands, but does not include Bengkalis Island which is geographically part of the archipelago but remains within Bengkalis Regency. The principal town is Selat Panjang (also written as Selatpanjang) on Tebing Tinggi Island. The regency covers an area of 3,623.93 km2, and had a population of 176,290 at the 2010 Census and 206,116 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2022 was 213,532. Administrative districts
When created in 2008, the regency was divided into five districts (kecamatan), listed below with their populations at the 2010 Census:

On 26 January 2011 the regency was re-divided into nine districts. The additional four districts are Tebing Tinggi Timur (East Tebing Tingggi Island, leaving the residual area of Tebing Tinggi District to cover the town of Selat Panjang), Rangsang Pesisir (Coastal Rangsang), Pulau Merbau (Merbau Island, leaving the residual area of Merbau District to cover the southern part of Padang Island) and Tasik Putri Puyu (covering the northern part of Padang Island). The areas and the populations of the nine districts at the 2020 Census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2022, are as follows. The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, and the number of villages (rural desa and urban kelurahan) in each district. References

Regencies of Riau