🇮🇩 Dairi Regency

Dairi Regency is an inland regency on the western shore of Lake Toba in North Sumatra Province of Indonesia. The regency was created on 23 September 1964 from what were previously the north-western districts of North Tapanuli Regency; however the southern districts of this new regency were in turn split off on 25 February 2003 to form the new Pakpak Bharat Regency. The reduced regency covers an area of 1,927.80 square kilometres (744.33 mi2) and it had a population of 269,848 people at the 2010 Census and 308,764 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as of mid 2025 was 336,403. Its administrative seat is at the town of Sidikalang.