Sampit River
The Sampit River or Mentaya River is a river of Central Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. The river takes its name from the town of Sampit which lies on the river not far from the Java Sea.- Type: River
- Description: river in East Kotawaringin, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Mentaja River”, “Mentaya River”, “Sampit-Rivier”, “Soengai Mantaja”, “Soengai Mentaja”, and “山弼河”
Sampit River
- Category: body of water
- Location: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-2.74932° or 2° 44′ 58″ south
Longitude
112.8912° or 112° 53′ 28″ east
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
6P9J7V2R+7F
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=water
OpenStreetMap feature
water=river
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sampit River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر سامبيت”
- Cebuano: “Sungai Sampit (suba sa Indonesia, Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah)”
- Cebuano: “Sungai Sampit”
- Chinese: “桑皮特河 (印度尼西亞)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر سامبيت”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Sampit”
- Irish: “Abhainn Sampit”
- Japanese: “サンピット川”
- Swedish: “Sungai Sampit (vattendrag i Indonesien, Kalimantan Tengah)”
- Swedish: “Sungai Sampit”
- Welsh: “Afon Sampit”
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Highlights: PELINDO III and PELINDO III CABANG SAMPIT.
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