Pelalawan is a regency (kabupaten) of Riau Province, Indonesia.

[1] The administrative centre is in the large town of Pangkalan Kerinci.

The regency is divided into twelve districts (kecamatan), listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census[2] and the 2020 Census,[3] together with the official estimates as at mid 2023.

[1] The table also includes the locations of the district administrative centres, the number of administrative villages in each district (totaling rural desa and 14 urban kelurahan), and its post code; of the 14 kelurahan, one is in each district (the district administrative centre as named below in each case), except that the very urbanised Pangkalan Kerinci District has three kelurahan.

[4] (b) seven of the ten villages of this district comprise the offshore island of Pulau Mendol, with 13,232 inhabitants in 2023.