Raja Ampat

Raja Ampat, or the Four Kings, is an archipelago located off
the northwest tip of Bird's Head Peninsula on the island of New Guinea, in
Indonesia's Southwest Papua province. It comprises over 1,500 small islands,
cays, and shoals surrounding the four main islands of Misool, Salawati,
Batanta, and Waigeo, and the smaller island of Kofiau.

The Raja Ampat archipelago straddles the Equator and forms
part of Coral Triangle which contains the richest marine biodiversity on earth.

Administratively, the archipelago is part of the province of
Southwest Papua. Most of the islands constitute the Raja Ampat Regency, which
was separated out from Sorong Regency in 2004. The regency encompasses around
70,000 square kilometres (27,000 sq mi) of land and sea, of which 8,034.44 km2
constitutes the land area and has a population of 64,141 at the 2020 Census.
This excludes the southern half of Salawati Island, which is not part of this
regency but instead constitutes the Salawati Selatan and Salawati Tengah
Districts of Sorong Regency.