classified above, the coastal hills of the plains and mountains include varieties of highlands and slopes. List of major islands in Maluku Ambon Island Aru Islands (Kepulauan Aru) Babar Islands Banda Islands (Kepulauan Banda) Buru Damer Island (Kepulauan Damar) Kai Islands (Kepulauan Kai) Gorong archipelago (Pulau-pulau Gorong) Lease Islands (Kepulauan Lease) includes Saparua, Nusa Laut and Haruku Islands Leti Islands (Kepulauan Leti) includes Leti, Moa and Lakor Seram Sermata Islands (Kepulauan Sermata) Southwestern Islands (Barat Daya Islands) includes Wetar Island, Kisar Island and Romang Island Tanimbar Islands (Kepulauan Tanimbar) Watubela archipelago (Kepulauan Watubela) Wetar Administrative divisions Following the splitting off of the northern parts of the regency in 1999 to form the new North Maluku Province (Maluku Utara), the residual province of Maluku was composed of two regencies (Central Maluku and Southeast Maluku) and the City of Ambon, but on 4 October 1999 two new regencies were created with the separation of Buru Regency from Central Maluku, and of Southeast Maluku West Regency from Southeast Maluku. Three additional regencies were created on 18 December 2003 (under Law 40/2003) - East Seram Regency and West Seram Regency, both from parts of Central Maluku, and Aru Islands Regency from part of Southeast Maluku (which was thus left to comprise just the Kai Islands. On 17 July 2007 the City of Tual was separated from Southeast Maluku, and on 24 June 2008 two further regencies were created - South Buru Regency from part of Buru, and Southwest Maluku Regency from part of Southeast Maluku West. The residual part of Southeast Maluku West Regency was subsequently renamed the Tanimbar Islands Regency on 23 January 2019. Thus the province of Maluku is currently divided into nine regencies (kabupaten) and the two cities (kota) of Ambon and Tual, which form the tenth and eleventh regency-level administrative divisions. The regencies and cities, with their administrative capitals, are listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 census and at the 2020 census, together with the official estimates for mid 2022. The toble also includes the numbers of districts (kecamata) and villages (urban kelurahan and rural desa) in each city or regency. Demographics Ethnicity Maluku are dominated by the Moluccans, which are part of the Melanesian ethnic race related to the people in New Guinea as well as other countries such as Fiji, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and several island nations scattered in the Pacific Ocean. There