Tanir Rural LLG is a

local government area A local government area (LGA) is an administrative division of a country that a local government is responsible for. The size of an LGA varies by country but it is generally a subdivision of a federated state, state, province, division (politica ...

New Ireland Province New Ireland Province, formerly New Mecklenburg (), and Nova Hibernia, is the northeasternmost Provinces of Papua New Guinea, province of Papua New Guinea. Physical geography The largest island of the province is New Ireland (island), New Irelan ...

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...

since 2008. The LLG administers the

Tanga Islands The Tanga Islands are an island group in Papua New Guinea, located north-east of New Ireland and part of the Bismarck Archipelago. Tanga is made up of four main islands — Boang, Malendok, Lif and Tefa — and a number of smaller, uninhabit ...

and the

Feni Islands The Feni Islands are an island group in New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, located east of New Ireland, at . It is a part of the Bismarck Archipelago. The larger island of the group is Ambitle, the other island is Babase Island Babase Isl ...

. Tanir is a

portmanteau In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed by combining the meanings, and parts of the sounds, of two or more words together.

word from the two island names which are Tanga and Anir. The current LLG president is Felix Kaltubim from

. Population is 15,271 as per 2021 Papua New Guinea Census estimates Report. Two languages spoken here, split from Tangga language with the Niwer Mil language spoken on

and Warwar Feni language spoken on

Wards

*01. Taonsip *02. Fonli *03. Kamunaseo *04. Amfar *05. Sungkin *06. Put *07. Nonu *08. Lif *09. Tefa *10. Natong/Pikan *11. Basakla/Fargot/Fatakasang *12. Warantaban/Balangkolem *13. Kamgot/Bulam *14. Balgit/Banakin/Naliu

References

* * * * * 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) {{coord missing, Papua New Guinea Local-level governments of New Ireland Province