Tanir Rural LLG
Location of Tanir Rural LLG in Namatanai District of New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea
Country	Papua New Guinea
Province	New Ireland Province
Time zone	UTC+10 (AEST)

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.

The current LLG president is Felix Kaltubim from Tanga Islands. 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.

Wards

References

"Census Figures by Wards - Islands Region". www.nso.gov.pg. 2011 National Population and Housing Census: Ward Population Profile. Port Moresby: National Statistical Office, Papua New Guinea. 2014.
"Final Figures". www.nso.gov.pg. 2011 National Population and Housing Census: Ward Population Profile. Port Moresby: National Statistical Office, Papua New Guinea. 2014.
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)

v t e LLGs and districts of New Ireland Province of Papua New Guinea
Kavieng District	Kavieng Urban Tikana Rural Lovongai Rural Murat Rural
Namatanai District	Namatanai Rural Sentral Niu Ailan Rural Konoagil Rural Matalai Rural Nimamar Rural Tanir Rural