A numbered list of all 172 districts, the regency or city each one belongs to, key details

Listed alphabetically. Format: district – regency or city.

List of districts

1. Bagan Sinembah – Rokan Hilir Regency
2. Bagan Sinembah Raya – Rokan Hilir Regency
3. Balai Jaya – Rokan Hilir Regency
4. Bandar Laksamana – Bengkalis Regency
5. Bandar Petalangan – Pelalawan Regency
6. Bandar Sei Kijang – Pelalawan Regency
7. Bangkinang – Kampar Regency
8. Bangkinang Kota – Kampar Regency
9. Bangko – Rokan Hilir Regency
10. Bangko Pusako – Rokan Hilir Regency
11. Bangun Purba – Rokan Hulu Regency
12. Bantan – Bengkalis Regency
13. Batang Cenaku – Indragiri Hulu Regency
14. Batang Gansal – Indragiri Hulu Regency
15. Batang Peranap – Indragiri Hulu Regency
16. Batang Tuaka – Indragiri Hilir Regency
17. Bathin Solapan – Bengkalis Regency
18. Batu Hampar – Rokan Hilir Regency
19. Benai – Kuantan Singingi Regency
20. Bengkalis – Bengkalis Regency
21. Binawidya – Pekanbaru City
22. Bonai Darussalam – Rokan Hulu Regency
23. Bukit Batu – Bengkalis Regency
24. Bukit Kapur – Dumai City
25. Bukit Raya – Pekanbaru City
26. Bunga Raya – Siak Regency
27. Bunut – Pelalawan Regency
28. Cerenti – Kuantan Singingi Regency
29. Concong – Indragiri Hilir Regency
30. Dayun – Siak Regency
31. Dumai Barat – Dumai City
32. Dumai Kota – Dumai City
33. Dumai Selatan – Dumai City
34. Dumai Timur – Dumai City
35. Enok – Indragiri Hilir Regency
36. Gaung – Indragiri Hilir Regency
37. Gaung Anak Serka – Indragiri Hilir Regency
38. Gunung Sahilan – Kampar Regency
39. Gunung Toar – Kuantan Singingi Regency
40. Hulu Kuantan – Kuantan Singingi Regency
41. Inuman – Kuantan Singingi Regency
42. Kabun – Rokan Hulu Regency
43. Kampa – Kampar Regency
44. Kampar – Kampar Regency
45. Kampar Kiri – Kampar Regency
46. Kampar Kiri Hilir – Kampar Regency
47. Kampar Kiri Hulu – Kampar Regency
48. Kampar Kiri Tengah – Kampar Regency
49. Kampar Utara – Kampar Regency
50. Kandis – Siak Regency
51. Kateman – Indragiri Hilir Regency
52. Kelayang – Indragiri Hulu Regency
53. Kempas – Indragiri Hilir Regency
54. Kemuning – Indragiri Hilir Regency
55. Kepenuhan – Rokan Hulu Regency
56. Kepenuhan Hulu – Rokan Hulu Regency
57. Kerinci Kanan – Siak Regency
58. Keritang – Indragiri Hilir Regency
59. Kerumutan – Pelalawan Regency
60. Koto Gasip – Siak Regency
61. Koto Kampar Hulu – Kampar Regency
62. Kuala Cenaku – Indragiri Hulu Regency
63. Kuala Indragiri – Indragiri Hilir Regency
64. Kuala Kampar – Pelalawan Regency
65. Kuantan Hilir – Kuantan Singingi Regency
66. Kuantan Hilir Seberang – Kuantan Singingi Regency
67. Kuantan Mudik – Kuantan Singingi Regency
68. Kuantan Tengah – Kuantan Singingi Regency
69. Kubu – Rokan Hilir Regency
70. Kubu Babussalam – Rokan Hilir Regency
71. Kulim – Pekanbaru City
72. Kunto Darussalam – Rokan Hulu Regency
73. Kuok – Kampar Regency
74. Langgam – Pelalawan Regency
75. Limapuluh – Pekanbaru City
76. Lirik – Indragiri Hulu Regency
77. Logas Tanah Darat – Kuantan Singingi Regency
78. Lubuk Batu Jaya – Indragiri Hulu Regency
79. Lubuk Dalam – Siak Regency
80. Mandah – Indragiri Hilir Regency
81. Mandau – Bengkalis Regency
82. Marpoyan Damai – Pekanbaru City
83. Medang Kampai – Dumai City
84. Mempura – Siak Regency
85. Merbau – Kepulauan Meranti Regency
86. Minas – Siak Regency
87. Pagaran Tapah Darussalam – Rokan Hulu Regency
88. Pangean – Kuantan Singingi Regency
89. Pangkalan Kerinci – Pelalawan Regency
90. Pangkalan Kuras – Pelalawan Regency
91. Pangkalan Lesung – Pelalawan Regency
92. Pasir Limau Kapas – Rokan Hilir Regency
93. Pasir Penyu – Indragiri Hulu Regency
94. Payung Sekaki – Pekanbaru City
95. Pekaitan – Rokan Hilir Regency
96. Pekanbaru Kota – Pekanbaru City
97. Pelalawan – Pelalawan Regency
98. Pelangiran – Indragiri Hilir Regency
99. Pendalian IV Koto – Rokan Hulu Regency
100. Peranap – Indragiri Hulu Regency
101. Perhentian Raja – Kampar Regency
102. Pinggir – Bengkalis Regency
103. Pucuk Rantau – Kuantan Singingi Regency
104. Pujud – Rokan Hilir Regency
105. Pulau Burung – Indragiri Hilir Regency
106. Pulau Merbau – Kepulauan Meranti Regency
107. Pusako – Siak Regency
108. Rakit Kulim – Indragiri Hulu Regency
109. Rambah – Rokan Hulu Regency
110. Rambah Hilir – Rokan Hulu Regency
111. Rambah Samo – Rokan Hulu Regency
112. Rangsang – Kepulauan Meranti Regency
113. Rangsang Barat – Kepulauan Meranti Regency
114. Rangsang Pesisir – Kepulauan Meranti Regency
115. Rantau Kopar – Rokan Hilir Regency
116. Rengat – Indragiri Hulu Regency
117. Rengat Barat – Indragiri Hulu Regency
118. Reteh – Indragiri Hilir Regency
119. Rimba Melintang – Rokan Hilir Regency
120. Rokan IV Koto – Rokan Hulu Regency
121. Rumbai – Pekanbaru City
122. Rumbai Barat – Pekanbaru City
123. Rumbai Timur – Pekanbaru City
124. Rumbio Jaya – Kampar Regency
125. Rupat – Bengkalis Regency
126. Rupat Utara – Bengkalis Regency
127. Sabak Auh – Siak Regency
128. Sail – Pekanbaru City
129. Salo – Kampar Regency
130. Seberida – Indragiri Hulu Regency
131. Senapelan – Pekanbaru City
132. Sentajo Raya – Kuantan Singingi Regency
133. Siak – Siak Regency
134. Siak Hulu – Kampar Regency
135. Siak Kecil – Bengkalis Regency
136. Simpang Kanan – Rokan Hilir Regency
137. Sinaboi – Rokan Hilir Regency
138. Singingi – Kuantan Singingi Regency
139. Singingi Hilir – Kuantan Singingi Regency
140. Sukajadi – Pekanbaru City
141. Sungai Apit – Siak Regency
142. Sungai Batang – Indragiri Hilir Regency
143. Sungai Lala – Indragiri Hulu Regency
144. Sungai Mandau – Siak Regency
145. Sungai Sembilan – Dumai City
146. Talang Muandau – Bengkalis Regency
147. Tambang – Kampar Regency
148. Tambusai – Rokan Hulu Regency
149. Tambusai Utara – Rokan Hulu Regency
150. Tanah Merah – Indragiri Hilir Regency
151. Tanah Putih – Rokan Hilir Regency
152. Tanah Putih Tanjung Melawan – Rokan Hilir Regency
153. Tandun – Rokan Hulu Regency
154. Tanjung Medan – Rokan Hilir Regency
155. Tapung – Kampar Regency
156. Tapung Hilir – Kampar Regency
157. Tapung Hulu – Kampar Regency
158. Tasik Putri Puyu – Kepulauan Meranti Regency
159. Tebing Tinggi – Kepulauan Meranti Regency
160. Tebing Tinggi Barat – Kepulauan Meranti Regency
161. Tebing Tinggi Timur – Kepulauan Meranti Regency
162. Teluk Balengkong – Indragiri Hilir Regency
163. Teluk Meranti – Pelalawan Regency
164. Tembilahan – Indragiri Hilir Regency
165. Tembilahan Hulu – Indragiri Hilir Regency
166. Tempuling – Indragiri Hilir Regency
167. Tenayan Raya – Pekanbaru City
168. Tuah Madani – Pekanbaru City
169. Tualang – Siak Regency
170. Ujung Batu – Rokan Hulu Regency
171. Ukui – Pelalawan Regency
172. XIII Koto Kampar – Kampar Regency

Riau at a glance

• Riau is a province on the island of Sumatra, with Pekanbaru as its capital and largest city.
• It is divided into 10 regencies (kabupaten) and 2 cities (kota), which together contain 172 districts (kecamatan).
• Districts are in turn made up of rural villages (desa) and urban villages (kelurahan). All of Pekanbaru’s 83 administrative villages are kelurahan.
• In Indonesia’s official area codes, Riau’s code is 14, so district codes in Riau start with 14 (for example, 14.01 is Kampar and 14.71 is Pekanbaru).

Districts per regency or city

• Kampar Regency: 21 districts. Seat: Bangkinang. Area 11,289.28 km². Population about 922,800 (2025).
• Indragiri Hilir Regency: 20 districts. Seat: Tembilahan. Area 13,136.14 km². Population about 731,400 (2025).
• Rokan Hilir Regency: 18 districts. Seat: Bagansiapiapi. Area 9,068.63 km². Population about 688,100 (2024).
• Rokan Hulu Regency: 16 districts. Seat: Pasir Pengaraian. Area 7,588.13 km². Population about 587,000 (2024).
• Kuantan Singingi Regency: 15 districts. Seat: Teluk Kuantan. Area 7,656.03 km². Population about 366,000 (2024).
• Pekanbaru City: 15 districts. Provincial capital. Area 632.26 km². Population about 1,167,600 (2024).
• Indragiri Hulu Regency: 14 districts. Seat: Rengat. Area 8,198.71 km². Population about 487,000 (2024).
• Siak Regency: 14 districts. Seat: Siak Sri Indrapura. Area 8,556.09 km². Population about 495,800 (2024).
• Pelalawan Regency: 12 districts. Seat: Pangkalan Kerinci. Area 13,408.72 km². Population about 434,600 (2024).
• Bengkalis Regency: 11 districts. Seat: Bengkalis. Area 8,612.56 km². Population about 693,000 (2025).
• Kepulauan Meranti Regency: 9 districts. Seat: Selat Panjang. Area 3,144.18 km². Population about 212,000 (2024).
• Dumai City: 7 districts (Bukit Kapur, Dumai Barat, Dumai Kota, Dumai Selatan, Dumai Timur, Medang Kampai, Sungai Sembilan).

Total: 21 + 20 + 18 + 16 + 15 + 15 + 14 + 14 + 12 + 11 + 9 + 7 = 172 districts.

Notable facts

• With most districts: Kampar (21), followed by Indragiri Hilir (20) and Rokan Hilir (18). Fewest: Dumai (7) and Kepulauan Meranti (9).
• Largest district by area: Teluk Meranti in Pelalawan, at 4,321.64 km². Gaung (Indragiri Hilir, 2,182.80 km²) and Singingi (Kuantan Singingi, 1,953.55 km²) come next.
• Smallest district by area: Pekanbaru Kota, at 2.26 km², followed by Sail (3.26 km²) and Limapuluh (4.04 km²), also in Pekanbaru.
• Most populous districts: Mandau in Bengkalis (about 175,000 in the 2025 estimate) and Tuahmadani in Pekanbaru (about 172,000 in 2024). Marpoyan Damai in Pekanbaru is next at about 156,000.
• Island districts: Bengkalis Island holds Bengkalis and Bantan; Rupat Island holds Rupat and Rupat Utara. In Kepulauan Meranti, Tebing Tinggi Island has three districts, Rangsang Island has three, Padang Island has two (Tasik Putri Puyu and Merbau), and Pulau Merbau is a single district.
• A geographic oddity: Tandun and Kabun, both in Rokan Hulu, form a long strip reaching into Kampar Regency.
• Shared names: Bengkalis, Siak, Kampar and Pelalawan each have a district with the same name as the regency. Pekanbaru also has a Pekanbaru Kota district.
• Renamed districts: Kuok was formerly Bangkinang Barat, Kampa was formerly Kampar Timur, and Bangkinang is also called Bangkinang Seberang.

How district numbers have grown

New districts are usually created by splitting existing ones, so counts keep rising:

• Pekanbaru: from 12 to 15 districts in the 2021 reorganisation. Tampan was replaced by Binawidya and Tuahmadani, Tenayan Raya was split to create Kulim, and Rumbai and Rumbai Pesisir were reorganised into Rumbai, Rumbai Barat and Rumbai Timur.
• Kepulauan Meranti: created in 2008 with 5 districts, re-divided into 9 in 2011.
• Rokan Hilir: 13 districts in 2010, now 18.
• Kuantan Singingi: 12 districts in 2010, now 15.
• Bengkalis: 8 districts after 2008, now 11.
• Kampar: 12, then 19, now 21.
• Dumai: 3 districts when it became a city in 1999, 5 by 2001, and 7 since 2009.

Understanding Riau’s districts

How Riau is organised

Indonesia is governed in layers. Below the national government sits the province, and Riau is one of them. Each province is divided into regencies (kabupaten), which are mostly rural or mixed areas, and cities (kota), which are urban. Below those sit the kecamatan, usually translated as district or subdistrict, and below the kecamatan sit the villages: rural desa and urban kelurahan. Riau has ten regencies and two cities, and between them they hold 172 districts.

It helps to know that Riau here means the mainland province on Sumatra. The Riau Islands, around Batam and Bintan, are a separate province with their own list of districts.

A province shaped by rivers and coastline

Riau stretches across central Sumatra from the highlands bordering West Sumatra to the Strait of Malacca, and its regencies follow the rivers. Kampar and Kuantan Singingi sit in the upper river basins, while Siak, Rokan Hulu, Rokan Hilir and the two Indragiri regencies take their names or character from the Siak, Rokan and Indragiri rivers. Indragiri Hilir, the easternmost regency, is a low-lying delta area where many districts, such as Gaung, Mandah and Kateman, are reached largely by water.

The north and east coasts add islands to the map. Bengkalis and Rupat islands lie in the Strait of Malacca, while Kepulauan Meranti is an archipelago made up of Tebing Tinggi, Rangsang, Padang and Merbau islands. This is why districts like Rangsang Pesisir and Tasik Putri Puyu are island districts rather than mainland ones.

Why the number of districts keeps changing

The most important thing to understand about Indonesian districts is that they are not fixed. After 1999 a wave of regional division, known as pemekaran, split large regencies into new ones. Pelalawan, Rokan Hulu and Kuantan Singingi were all carved out of larger regencies in October 1999, and Kepulauan Meranti was separated from Bengkalis in 2008. Districts followed the same pattern. When a district grows quickly, usually because of plantations, industry or migration, it is divided so that local government stays within reach of residents.

Bengkalis shows this clearly. Its large southern district of Mandau, home to the oil town of Duri, was split to create Bathin Solapan, and Pinggir was split to create Talang Muandau. Pekanbaru shows the urban version: as suburbs such as Tampan grew, the city reorganised its map from 12 to 15 districts in 2021.

Big differences between districts

Because districts are created for administration, not equal size, they vary enormously. Teluk Meranti in Pelalawan covers more than 4,300 km² and has roughly 19,000 residents, while Pekanbaru Kota covers only 2.26 km² and sits in the heart of the capital. Some districts hold more than 100,000 people, and others, such as Sungai Batang in Indragiri Hilir, have around 10,000. This spread is why district-level data is so useful: provincial or regency averages hide the contrast between a dense urban kelurahan and a remote riverine district.