Sitaro Islands Regency is a regency located in Sangihe Islands

Sangihe Islands

The Sangihe Islands – – are a group of islands constitute 2 regencies in northern Indonesia, the Sangihe Islands Regency & Sitaro Islands Regency...

, North Sulawesi

North Sulawesi

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, Indonesia. The regency was formed basing on Law Number 15 Year 2007 from January 2, 2007 . The regency's area is 275,96 km² and total population is 64,987 people. Most of the population are fishers and farmers. The majority's of the population religion is Christianity

Christianity

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 and Catholicism

Catholicism

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, but there are also followers of Islam

Islam

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 and Buddhism

Buddhism

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