Sampit
Sampit is a large town located in East Kotawaringin Regency, Central Kalimantan. Previously a timber port town, it has grown to be a medium-sized community with a population of 166,773 according to Statistics Indonesia in 2019, with the economy having since divested from timber products.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 167,000 residents
- Description: town in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
- Also known as: “SPT” and “Tanah Hevea”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kayu Sampit Museum.
Sampit
- Categories: human settlement, capital of regency, and locality
- Location: East Kotawaringin Regency, Central Kalimantan, Kalimantan, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-2.5389° or 2° 32′ 20″ southLongitude
112.9494° or 112° 56′ 58″ eastPopulation
167,000Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)IATA airport code
SMQUnited Nations Location Code
ID SMQOpen location code
6P9JFW6X+CQOpenStreetMap ID
node 559385414OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1628884Wikidata ID
Q3470926
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Sampit” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سامبت”
- Arabic: “سامبيت”
- Bulgarian: “Сампит”
- Cebuano: “Sampit”
- Chinese: “山弼”
- Chinese: “桑皮特”
- Dutch: “Sampit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سامبت”
- French: “Sampit”
- Indonesian: “Kota Sampit”
- Indonesian: “Sampit”
- Irish: “Sampit”
- Japanese: “サムピット”
- Japanese: “サンピット”
- Korean: “삼핏”
- Malagasy: “Sampit”
- Persian: “سامپیت”
- Polish: “Sampit”
- Portuguese: “Sampit”
- Swedish: “Sampit”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Masjid Perguruan Muhammadiyah and Masjid Al Muhajirin.
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