Padang Lawas is a regency in the North Sumatra province of Indonesia.

[1] The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages in each district (totaling 303 rural desa and a single urban kelurahan), and its postcode.

Notes: (a) including Pasar Sibuhuan, the sole kelurahan in the regency.

[3] The Padang Lawas archaeological site is partly located in the regency.

Covering approximately 1,500 km² it spreads over the districts of Barumun and Barumun Tengah, and into South Tapanuli and North Padang Lawas regencies.