Balikpapan

Balikpapan is a city of 850,000 people in . It serves as headquarters for international oil companies, mining companies and related support industries operating in eastern Kalimantan.
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  • City with 701,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 67 metres (220 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code BPN
  • …is also known as “Balikpapan City”
  • Description: city in East Kalimantan Province, Indonesia

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sumber Rejo and Gunung Bahagia.
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Ezagren, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Balikpapan

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Latitude
-1.2399° or 1° 14′ 24″ south
Longitude
116.8593° or 116° 51′ 34″ east
UN/LOCODE
ID BPN
Open location code
6PCRQV65+3P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2417847197
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1650527
Wiki­data ID
Q14492

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Balikpapan” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Balikpapan”
  • Arabic: “باليكبابان”
  • Balinese: “Kota Balikpapan”
  • Banjar: “Kuta Balikpapan”
  • Belarusian: “Балікпапан”
  • Bengali: “বালিকপাপান”
  • Betawi: “Kota Balikpapan”
  • Buginese: “Balikpapan”
  • Burmese: “ဘာလစ်ပါပန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Balikpapan”
  • Cebuano: “Balikpapan”
  • Chinese: “峇里巴板”
  • Chinese: “巴厘巴板”
  • Chinese: “巴里巴伴”
  • Chinese: “麻利巴板”
  • Chinese: “麻里巴板”
  • Czech: “Balikpapan”
  • Danish: “Balikpapan”
  • Dutch: “Balikpapan”
  • Esperanto: “Balikpapan”
  • Finnish: “Balikpapan”
  • French: “Balikpapan”
  • Galician: “Balikpapan”
  • Georgian: “ბალიკპაპანი”
  • German: “Balikpapan”
  • Gorontalo: “Kota Balikpapan”
  • Greek: “Μπαλικπαπάν”
  • Gujarati: “બાલિકપાપન”
  • Hebrew: “באליקפאפאן”
  • Hindi: “बालिकपापन”
  • Hungarian: “Balikpapan”
  • Indonesian: “Balik Papan”
  • Indonesian: “Balikkappan”
  • Indonesian: “Balikpapan, Kalimantan Timur”
  • Indonesian: “Balikpapan”
  • Indonesian: “Billipapan”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Balik Papan”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Balikpapan”
  • Indonesian: “Kotapraja Balikpapan”
  • Irish: “Balikpapan”
  • Italian: “Balikpapan”
  • Japanese: “バリクパパン”
  • Javanese: “Kutha Balikpapan”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಲಿಕ್ ಪಪಾನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಲಿಕ್ಪಾಪನ್”
  • Korean: “발릭파판”
  • Latvian: “Balikpapana”
  • Lithuanian: “Balikpapanas”
  • Malagasy: “Kota Balikpapan”
  • Malay: “Balikpapan”
  • Malayalam: “ബാലിക്പപ്പാൻ”
  • Marathi: “बालिकपपन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Balikpapan Chhī”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Balikpapan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balikkappan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balikpapan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Billipapan”
  • Norwegian: “Balikpapan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Balikpapan”
  • Ossetian: “Баликпапан”
  • Persian: “بالیک‌پاپان”
  • Polish: “Balikpapan”
  • Portuguese: “Balikpapan”
  • Romanian: “Balikpapan”
  • Russian: “Баликпапан”
  • Sinhala: “බලික්පපන්”
  • Slovenian: “Balikpapan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بالی ایالتیک‌پاپان”
  • Spanish: “Balikpapan”
  • Swedish: “Balikpapan”
  • Tamil: “பாலிக்பாப்பான்”
  • Tatar: “Баликпапан”
  • Telugu: “బాలిక్పపం”
  • Thai: “บาลิกปาปัน”
  • Thai: “บาลิก์ปาปัน”
  • Turkish: “Balikpapan”
  • Ukrainian: “Балікпапан”
  • Urdu: “بالکپاپان”
  • Uzbek: “Balikpapan”
  • Venetian: “Balikpapan”
  • Vietnamese: “Balikpapan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Balikpapan”
  • Western Frisian: “Balikpapan”
  • Wu Chinese: “巴厘巴板”
  • Yue Chinese: “峇里巴板”

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