Riau_province

For other uses, see Riau (disambiguation).

Riau

Capital	Pekanbaru
Governor	Rusli Zainal
Area	82,232 km² (31,750 sq mi)
Population	4,948,000  (2000)
Density	60.2/km² (155.9/sq mi)
Ethnic groups	Malay (38%), Javanese (25%), Minangkabau (11%), Batak (7%), Banjarese (4%), Chinese (4%), Buginese (2%) (2003) Indonesia\'s Population: Ethnicity and Religion in a Changing Political Landscape. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.
Religion	Muslim (88%), Protestant (1%), Catholic (5%), Buddhist (6%), Hindu (0.2%)
Languages	Malay, Indonesian, Minangkabau
Time zone	WIB (UTC+7)
Web site	www.riau.go.id

Riau is a province of Indonesia, located in the center of Sumatra island along the Strait of Malacca. The provincial capital and largest city is Pekanbaru. Other major cities includes Dumai, Bangkinang and Siak Sri Indrapura.

Indonesian was based on the Riau version of Malay language.

Riau is one of the richest provinces in Indonesia. This province is rich with natural resources, particularly petroleum and natural gas, rubber, and palm oil.

The province was once heavily forested lowlands, but with palm oil plantations and logging being major industries it is losing around 2,000 square km of forest per year. In 2005 the forest cover was down to 33% (or 27.000 square km) from 78% (or 64.000 square km) in 1982.http://www.wwf.or.id/attachments/pdf/EleventhHourRiau\'sForests.pdf Being a province with a predominantly low relief, the coastal regions are rapidly losing land to the ocean.

The Riau Islands were part of Riau until 2004, when they were made into a separate province.

The dialect of Indonesian spoken in this region is said by many linguists to be one of the simplest languages in the world, possessing neither noun declensions, nor temporal distinctions, nor subject/object distinctions, nor singular/plural distinction, nor word order of any kind.^{[citation needed]}

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Coordinates: 0°32′N, 101°27′E

v • d • e Regencies, cities, Islands of Riau
Regencies: Bengkalis | Indragiri Hilir | Indragiri Hulu | Kampar | Kuantan Singingi | Pelalawan | Rokan Hulu | Rokan Hilir | Siak
Cities: Dumai | Pekanbaru
Islands: Rupat | Bengkalis | Padang | Rangsang | Tebing Tinggi Island | Basu

v • d • e Provinces of Indonesia
Sumatra	Aceh · North Sumatra · West Sumatra · Bengkulu · Riau · Riau Islands · Jambi · South Sumatra · Lampung · Bangka-Belitung Islands
Java	Jakarta · West Java · Banten · Central Java · Yogyakarta · East Java
Kalimantan	West Kalimantan · Central Kalimantan · South Kalimantan · East Kalimantan
Lesser Sunda Islands	Bali · West Nusa Tenggara · East Nusa Tenggara
Sulawesi	West Sulawesi · North Sulawesi · Central Sulawesi · South Sulawesi · South East Sulawesi · Gorontalo
Maluku Islands and New Guinea	Maluku · North Maluku · West Papua · Papua

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