Tanir Rural LLG

Tanir Rural LLG is a local government area in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea since 2008. The LLG administers the Tanga Islands and the Feni Islands. Tanir is a portmanteau word from the two island names which are Tanga and Anir.

Population is 15,271 as per 2021 Papua New Guinea Census estimates Report.^[1] Two languages spoken here, split from Tangga language with the Niwer Mil language spoken on Tanga Islands and Warwar Feni language spoken on Feni Islands. Ward 1-9 are on Tanga Island while Wards 10-14 on Anir Islands.

• 01. Taonsip
• 02. Fonli
• 03. Kamunaseo
• 04. Amfar
• 05. Sungkin
• 06. Put
• 07. Nonu
• 08. Lif
• 09. Tefa
• 10. Natong
• 11. Basakla
• 12. Warantaban
• 13. Kamgot
• 14. Balngit

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• "Final Figures". www.nso.gov.pg. 2011 National Population and Housing Census: Ward Population Profile. Port Moresby: National Statistical Office, Papua New Guinea. 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. Retrieved 2019-06-06.
• OCHA FISS (2018). "Papua New Guinea administrative level 0, 1, 2, and 3 population statistics and gazetteer". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
• United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
• Foster, Robert J., Social Reproduction and History in Melanesia: Mortuary Ritual, Gift Exchange and Custom in the Tanga Islands. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995
• Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Tangga". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
• Niwer Mil (Tangga Island) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
• Warwar Feni (Feni Island) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)