East Kalimantan
East Kalimantan is the northeastern part of Kalimantan in Indonesia. Administratively it consists of the provinces of East Kalimantan and North Kalimantan.Photo: Herusutimbul, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Nusantara and Samarinda.
Nusantara
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Nusantara, officially Ibu Kota Nusantara, lit. 'National Capital of Nusantara', is Indonesia's future capital, located near the city of Balikpapan on the eastern side of Kalimantan.
Samarinda
Samarinda is the capital of East Kalimantan, on the eastern part of the island of Borneo, 60 km from the Makassar Strait.Balikpapan
Balikpapan is a city of 850,000 people in East Kalimantan. It serves as headquarters for international oil companies, mining companies and related support industries operating in eastern Kalimantan.Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Tarakan and Bontang.
Tarakan
Tarakan is a city on an island of the same name in East Kalimantan, and the largest city of the province of North Kalimantan.
Bontang
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Bontang is a city on the eastern coast of the island of Borneo in Indonesia, which is located in the province of East Kalimantan. It occupies an area of 160.62 km2, and the population of 140,787 people at the 2010 census, and 178,917 people at the 2020 census; the official estimate as of mid-2025 was 194,606 people.
Nunukan
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Nunukan is a busy town on an island of the same name in East Kalimantan, bordering Tawau in Sabah, Malaysia. It serves as a main transit point to Tawau.
Derawan
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Derawan is an island. It's one of the Derawan Islands, off the coast of East Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Apo Kayan
The Apo Kayan is a remote highland region in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. It is situated close to the Malaysian border in the northwest of the province of East Kalimantan.East Kalimantan
- Type: State with 3,810,000 residents
- Description: province of Indonesia
- Also known as: “East Borneo”, “East Kalimantan Province”, “Eastern Borneo”, “Eastern Kalimantan”, “Kalimantan Timur”, and “Propinsi Kalimantan Timur”
- Neighbors: Central Kalimantan, Central Sulawesi, Nusantara, Sarawak, South Kalimantan, and West Kalimantan
- Categories: province of Indonesia and locality
- Location: Kalimantan, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
0.7884° or 0° 47′ 18″ northLongitude of center
116.242° or 116° 14′ 31″ eastPopulation
3,810,000Elevation
69 metres (226 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“East Kalimantan” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Kalimantan Timu”
- Amharic: “ምስራቅ ካሊማንታን”
- Arabic: “كالمنتان الشرقية”
- Arabic: “كليمنتان الشرقية”
- Asturian: “Borneo Oriental”
- Azerbaijani: “Şərq Kalimantan”
- Balinese: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Banjar: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Basque: “Ekialdeko Kalimantan”
- Batak Mandailing: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Belarusian: “Правінцыя Усходні Калімантан”
- Belarusian: “Усходні Калімантан”
- Bengali: “পূর্ব কালিমান্তান”
- Betawi: “Kalimantan Wètan”
- Breton: “Reter Kalimantan”
- Bulgarian: “Източен Калимантан”
- Burmese: “အရှေ့ကာလီမန်တန်ပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “Kalimantan oriental”
- Catalan: “Kalimantan Oriental”
- Cebuano: “Provinsi Kalimantan Timur”
- Central Bikol: “Subangan na Kalimantan”
- Chinese: “Tang Kalimantan Séng”
- Chinese: “东加里曼丹省”
- Chinese: “東加里曼丹”
- Chinese: “東加里曼丹省”
- Czech: “Východní Kalimantan”
- Danish: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Dimli (individual language): “Kalimantan Rocvetışi”
- Dutch: “Oost-Kalimantan”
- Esperanto: “Orienta Kalimantano”
- Finnish: “Itä-Kalimantan”
- French: “Kalimantan oriental”
- Georgian: “აღმოსავლეთი კალიმანტანი”
- German: “Kalimantan Timur”
- German: “Ost-Kalimantan”
- German: “Provinz Ostkalimantan”
- Gorontalo: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Greek: “Ανατολικό Καλιμαντάν”
- Gujarati: “કાલિમંતન તૈમુર”
- Hakka Chinese: “Tûng Kalimantan”
- Hausa: “Gabas Kalimantan”
- Hebrew: “מזרח קאלימנטן”
- Hebrew: “מזרח קלימנטאן”
- Hindi: “कलिमंतान तैमूर”
- Hindi: “पूर्व कालिमंतान”
- Hungarian: “Kelet-Kalimantan”
- Iban: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Iloko: “Daya a Kalimantan”
- Indonesian: “Daerah Tingkat I Kalimantan Timur”
- Indonesian: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Indonesian: “Kaltim”
- Indonesian: “Propinsi Kalimantan-Timur”
- Indonesian: “Prov. Kalimantan Timur”
- Indonesian: “Provinsi Kalimantan Timur”
- Irish: “Kalimantan Thoir”
- Italian: “Kalimantan Orientale”
- Japanese: “東カリマンタン州”
- Javanese: “Kalimantan Wétan”
- Kannada: “ಕಲಿಮಾಂತನ್ ತಿಮುರ್”
- Kazakh: “Шығысты Құлимантан”
- Khmer: “កាលីម៉ាន់តាន់ខាងកើត”
- Kirghiz: “Чыгыш Калиманттан”
- Komering: “Kalimantan Darak”
- Komering: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Korean: “동칼리만탄주”
- Korean: “칼리만탄티무르 주”
- Korean: “칼리만탄티무르주”
- Latin: “Calimantania Orientalis”
- Latvian: “Austrumkalimantāna”
- Latvian: “Austrumu Kalimantāna”
- Lithuanian: “Rytų Kalimantanas”
- Macedonian: “Источен Калимантан”
- Madurese: “Kalimantan Tèmor”
- Malay: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Malayalam: “കിഴക്കൻ കലിമന്താൻ”
- Marathi: “पूर्व कालिमंतान”
- Marathi: “पूर्व कालिमांतान”
- Mazanderani: “شرقی کالیمانتان”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Dĕ̤ng Kalimantan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tang Kalimantan”
- Minangkabau: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Northern Frisian: “Uast Kalimantan”
- Northern Luri: “کالیمانتان افتوزنون”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Øst-Kalimantan”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Aust-Kalimantan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kalimantan oriental”
- Oromo: “Baafata Kalimantan”
- Ossetian: “Скæсæн Калимантан”
- Panjabi: “ਪੂਰਵ ਕਾਲੀਮਾਂਤਾਨ”
- Persian: “کالیمانتان شرقی”
- Polish: “Borneo Wschodnie”
- Portuguese: “Calimantã Oriental”
- Portuguese: “Kalimantan Oriental”
- Pushto: “ختیځ کالیمانتان”
- Romanian: “Kalimantanul de Est”
- Russian: “Восточный Калимантан”
- Santali: “ᱥᱟᱢᱟᱝ ᱠᱟᱞᱤᱢᱟᱱᱛᱟᱱ”
- Serbian: “Источни Калимантан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Istočni Kalimantan”
- Sinhala: “කලිමන්ටන් ටිමුර්”
- Sinhala: “නැගෙනහිර කලිමන්තන් පළාත, ඉන්දුනීසියාව”
- Slovenian: “Vzhodni Kalimantan”
- Somali: “Xagejifka Kalimantan”
- South Azerbaijani: “دوغو کالیمانتان”
- Spanish: “Kalimantan Oriental”
- Spanish: “Provincia de Borneo Oriental”
- Sundanese: “Kalimantan Wétan”
- Swahili: “Kalimantan Mashariki”
- Swedish: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Tajik: “Қалимантании Шарқӣ”
- Tamil: “களிமண்டன் தைமூர்”
- Tamil: “கிழக்கு கலிமந்தான்”
- Tamil: “கிழக்குக் கலிமந்தான்”
- Tamil: “கிழக்குக் களிமந்தான் மாகாணம்”
- Tamil: “கிழக்குக் களிமந்தான்”
- Tatar: “Көнчыгыш Калимантан”
- Tatar: “Чыгыш Калимантан”
- Telugu: “కాలిమంటన్ టిమూర్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดกาลีมันตันตะวันออก”
- Turkish: “Doğu Kalimantan”
- Ukrainian: “Східний Калімантан”
- Urdu: “مشرقی کالیمانتان”
- Uzbek: “Sharqiy Kalimantan”
- Vietnamese: “Đông Kalimantan”
- Vietnamese: “Kalimantan Timur”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sinirangan nga Kalimantan”
- Western Armenian: “Արեւելեան Քալիմանթան”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبا چڑھدا کالیمانتان”
- Western Panjabi: “صوبہ چڑھدا کالیمانتان”
- Wu Chinese: “東加里曼丹省”
- Yue Chinese: “東加里曼丹”
- “Kalimantan Timur”
- “Kalimantan Wetan”
- “Kalimantan-Timur”
- “Prov. Kalimantan Timur”
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