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Borneo is the third largest non-continental island in the world. The island is located in , straddling the equator. It's sparsely populated and famous for ancient rainforests filled with wildlife, including several primates and various rare and endangered species.
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  • Type: Island with 21,300,000 residents
  • Description: third largest island in the world by area, located in south-east Asia
  • Also known as: “Borneo Island” and “Pulau Borneo”

Borneo

Latitude of center
1° north
Longitude of center
114° east
Population
21,300,000
Elevation
1,073 metres (3,520 feet)
Geo­Names ID
1648148
Wiki­data ID
Q36117
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Borneo” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Borneo”
  • Achinese: “Kalimantan”
  • Afrikaans: “Borneo”
  • Albanian: “Borneo”
  • Amharic: “ቦርኒዮ”
  • Amharic: “ቦርንዮ”
  • Arabic: “بورنيو”
  • Arabic: “جزيرة بورنيو”
  • Aragonese: “Borneo”
  • Armenian: “Բորնեո”
  • Armenian: “Կալիմանտան”
  • Asturian: “Borneo”
  • Asturian: “islla de Borneo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Borneo”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kalimantan”
  • Balinese: “Nusa Borneo”
  • Balinese: “Nusa Kalimantan”
  • Banjar: “Borneo”
  • Banjar: “Pulau Kalimantan”
  • Banjar: “Pulaw Borneo”
  • Bashkir: “Borneo”
  • Bashkir: “Калимантан”
  • Basque: “Borneo”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Borneo”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Kalimantan”
  • Belarusian: “Барнэа”
  • Belarusian: “Барнэо”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Borneo”
  • Belarusian: “Востраў Калімантан”
  • Belarusian: “Калімантан”
  • Bengali: “বোর্নিও”
  • Bosnian: “Borneo”
  • Breton: “Borneo”
  • Bulgarian: “Борнео”
  • Burmese: “ဘော်နီယိုကျွန်း”
  • Catalan: “Borneo”
  • Cebuano: “Borneo”
  • Central Bikol: “Borneo”
  • Central Kanuri: “Borneo”
  • Chinese: “Borneo”
  • Chinese: “加里曼丹岛”
  • Chinese: “加里曼丹島”
  • Chinese: “婆罗”
  • Chinese: “婆罗洲”
  • Chinese: “婆罗洲岛”
  • Chinese: “婆羅”
  • Chinese: “婆羅洲”
  • Chuvash: “Борнео”
  • Chuvash: “Калимантан”
  • Cornish: “Borneo”
  • Croatian: “Borneo”
  • Czech: “Borneo”
  • Danish: “Borneo”
  • Dutch: “Borneo”
  • Dutch: “Bornéo”
  • Esperanto: “Borneo”
  • Estonian: “Borneo”
  • Estonian: “Kalimantan”
  • Faroese: “Borneo”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Borneo”
  • Finnish: “Borneo”
  • French: “Borneo”
  • French: “Bornéo”
  • Galician: “Borneo”
  • Georgian: “ბორნეო”
  • Georgian: “კალიმანტანი”
  • Georgian: “კილიმანტანი”
  • German: “Borneo”
  • Greek: “Βόρνεο”
  • Greek: “Καλιμαντάν”
  • Guarani: “toidba”
  • Guarani: “Voronéo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Borneo”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Phô-lò-chû”
  • Hausa: “Borneo”
  • Hebrew: “בורנאו”
  • Hebrew: “בורניאו”
  • Hindi: “ओरांगूटान”
  • Hindi: “बोर्नियो”
  • Hindi: “बोर्नेयो”
  • Hungarian: “Borneó”
  • Iban: “Borneo”
  • Icelandic: “Borneó”
  • Ido: “Borneo”
  • Iloko: “Borneo”
  • Inari Sami: “Borneo”
  • Indonesian: “Borneo”
  • Indonesian: “Kalimantan”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Borneo”
  • Indonesian: “Pulau Kalimantan”
  • Interlingue: “Borneo”
  • Irish: “Boirneo”
  • Italian: “Borneo”
  • Japanese: “カリマンタン”
  • Japanese: “カリマンタン島”
  • Japanese: “ボルネオ”
  • Japanese: “ボルネオ島”
  • Japanese: “婆羅”
  • Javanese: “Borneo”
  • Javanese: “Kalimantan”
  • Javanese: “Pulo Borneo”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Borneo”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Borneo”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Borneo”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kalimantan”
  • Kazakh: “Borneo”
  • Kazakh: “Калимантан”
  • Khmer: “កោះបរនេអូ”
  • Khmer: “បូរីអូ”
  • Kirghiz: “Borneo”
  • Kirghiz: “Калимантан”
  • Komering: “Pulau Borneo”
  • Komering: “Pulau Kalimantan”
  • Korean: “까리만딴 섬”
  • Korean: “까리만딴섬”
  • Korean: “깔리만딴 섬”
  • Korean: “깔리만딴섬”
  • Korean: “보르네오 섬”
  • Korean: “보르네오”
  • Korean: “보르네오섬”
  • Korean: “칼리만탄 섬”
  • Latin: “Borneum”
  • Latin: “Borneus”
  • Latvian: “Borneo”
  • Latvian: “Kalimantāna”
  • Limburgan: “Borneo”
  • Literary Chinese: “婆罗洲”
  • Lithuanian: “Borneo”
  • Lombard: “Borneo”
  • Lombard: “Bòrneo”
  • Macedonian: “Борнео”
  • Malagasy: “Bôrneô”
  • Malagasy: “Nosy Borneo”
  • Malay: “Borneo”
  • Malay: “Pulau Borneo”
  • Malay: “برنيو”
  • Malayalam: “ഇന്തോനേഷ്യന്‍ ദീപ്”
  • Malayalam: “ബോർണിയോ”
  • Marathi: “बॉर्नियो”
  • Marathi: “बोर्निओ”
  • Marathi: “बोर्नियो”
  • Mazanderani: “بورنئو”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Borneo”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Pô-lô-chiu”
  • Mingrelian: “კალიმანტანი”
  • Newari: “बोर्नियो”
  • Northern Frisian: “Borneo”
  • Northern Sami: “Borneo”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Borneo”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Borneo”
  • Norwegian: “Borneo”
  • Nyanja: “Borneo”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bornèo”
  • Ossetian: “Borneo”
  • Ossetian: “Борнео”
  • Ossetian: “Калимантан”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੋਰਨਿਓ ਟਾਪੂ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੋਰਨੀਓ”
  • Papiamento: “Borneo”
  • Persian: “برنئو”
  • Persian: “بورنئو”
  • Persian: “جزیره بورنئو”
  • Persian: “جزیرهٔ بورنئو”
  • Polish: “Borneo”
  • Portuguese: “Borneo”
  • Portuguese: “Bornéo”
  • Portuguese: “Borneu”
  • Portuguese: “Bornéu”
  • Portuguese: “Ilha de Bornéu”
  • Romanian: “Borneo”
  • Romanian: “Insula Borneo”
  • Russian: “Борнео”
  • Russian: “Калимантан”
  • Samogitian: “Borneo”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱚᱨᱱᱤᱭᱳ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱳᱨᱱᱤᱭᱳ”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Borneo”
  • Scots: “Borneo”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Borneo”
  • Serbian: “Борнео”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Borneo”
  • Sicilian: “Borneo”
  • Sicilian: “Borneu”
  • Silesian: “Borneo”
  • Skolt Sami: “Borneo”
  • Slovak: “Borneo”
  • Slovenian: “Borneo”
  • Spanish: “Borneo”
  • Spanish: “Isla de Borneo”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵓⵔⵏⵢⵓ”
  • Sundanese: “Borneo”
  • Sundanese: “Kalimantan”
  • Swahili: “Borneo”
  • Swedish: “Borneo”
  • Tagalog: “Borneo”
  • Tajik: “Борнео”
  • Tamil: “போர்ணியோ”
  • Tamil: “போர்னியோ”
  • Telugu: “బోర్నియో”
  • Thai: “กาลิมันตัน”
  • Thai: “เกาะกาลีมันตัน”
  • Thai: “เกาะบอร์เนียว”
  • Thai: “บอร์เนียว”
  • Tok Pisin: “Borneo”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Borneo”
  • Turkish: “Borneo”
  • Turkmen: “Borneo”
  • Turkmen: “Kalimantan”
  • Ukrainian: “Борнео”
  • Ukrainian: “Калімантан”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Borneo”
  • Urdu: “بورنیو”
  • Urdu: “کلیمنتان”
  • Urdu: “مشرقی ملائشیا”
  • Urdu: “مشرقی ملائیشیا”
  • Uzbek: “Borneo”
  • Uzbek: “Kalimantan”
  • Vietnamese: “Borneo”
  • Võro: “Kalimantan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Borneo”
  • Welsh: “Borneo”
  • Western Frisian: “Borneo”
  • Western Mari: “Borneo”
  • Western Mari: “Калимантан”
  • Western Panjabi: “بورنیو”
  • Western Panjabi: “بورینو”
  • Western Panjabi: “ਬੋਰਨੀਓ”
  • Wu Chinese: “婆罗洲”
  • Wu Chinese: “婆羅洲”
  • Yue Chinese: “婆罗洲”
  • Yue Chinese: “婆羅洲”
  • “Boirneo”
  • “Borneo”
  • “Borneu”
  • “Kalimantan”
  • “Kalimanten”
  • “ma lili Ponejo”
  • “ma telo Ponejo”
  • “Pulau Borneo”

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Borneo”. Photo: Julielangford, CC BY 3.0.