Kalimantan

Kalimantan is the part of the island of , the third largest island in the world. The Indonesian part covers around 580,000 km2 although the vast area is home to only 12 million people, so most of the area, particularly the interior, is very sparsely populated.
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, officially Ibu Kota , lit. 'National Capital of Nusantara', is 's future capital, located near the city of on the eastern side of Kalimantan.

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is the biggest city in . The city population was 625,395 at the 2010 census. Average temperatures vary from 24ºC to 32ºC. The weather is mostly hot and it still has rain even if it is hot season.

is the capital of , on the eastern part of the island of , 60 km from the Makassar Strait.

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is the northeastern part of Kalimantan in . Administratively it consists of the provinces of and North Kalimantan.

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is a province of Indonesia. The provincial capital was until 15 February 2022, where the capital was moved 35 km southeast to .

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is a province of in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of . Its capital city is , located on the equator.

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is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five provinces in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of . It is the largest province in Indonesia by area since 2022, bordered by to the west, and to the east, Java Sea to the south and is separated narrowly from and by East Kalimantan's .

Kalimantan

Latitude of center
-0.453° or 0° 27′ 11″ south
Longitude of center
114.0516° or 114° 3′ 6″ east
Population
15,000,000
Elevation
97 metres (318 feet)
Geo­Names ID
12060433
Wiki­data ID
Q3795
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Kalimantan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كليمنتان”
  • Asturian: “Kalimantan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kalimantan (İndoneziya)”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kalimantan”
  • Balinese: “Kalimantan (wewidangan Indonésia)”
  • Balinese: “Kalimantan”
  • Basque: “Kalimantan”
  • Batak Toba: “Kalimantan”
  • Belarusian: “Інданезійскі Калімантан”
  • Bengali: “কালিমান্তান”
  • Breton: “Kalimantan”
  • Bulgarian: “Калимантан”
  • Catalan: “Kalimantan”
  • Cebuano: “Kalimantan (bahin nga pulo sa Indonesya)”
  • Cebuano: “Kalimantan”
  • Central Bikol: “Kalimantan”
  • Chinese: “Kalimantan”
  • Chinese: “加里曼丹”
  • Croatian: “Kalimantan”
  • Czech: “Kalimantan”
  • Danish: “Kalimantan”
  • Dutch: “Kalimantan”
  • Esperanto: “Kalimantano”
  • Finnish: “Kalimantan”
  • French: “Kalimantan”
  • Galician: “Kalimantan”
  • German: “Kalimantan”
  • Gorontalo: “Kalimantan”
  • Greek: “Καλιμαντάν”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kalimantan”
  • Hebrew: “קאלימנטן”
  • Hebrew: “קלימנטן”
  • Hindi: “कालिमंतान”
  • Iban: “Kalimantan”
  • Iloko: “Kalimantan”
  • Indonesian: “Kalimantan (Indonesia)”
  • Indonesian: “Kalimantan”
  • Italian: “Kalimantan”
  • Japanese: “カリマンタン”
  • Japanese: “カリマンタン島”
  • Javanese: “Kalimantan (Wewengkon Indhonésiya)”
  • Javanese: “Kalimantan”
  • Khmer: “កាលីម៉ាន់តាន់”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Kalimantana”
  • Korean: “칼리만탄”
  • Lao: “ກາລິມັນຕັນ”
  • Latvian: “Indonēzijas Kalimantāna”
  • Latvian: “Kalimantāna”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalimantanas”
  • Lombard: “Kalimantan”
  • Macedonian: “Индонезиско Борнео”
  • Macedonian: “Калимантан”
  • Malagasy: “Kalimantan”
  • Malagasy: “Kalimantana”
  • Malay: “Kalimantan”
  • Malayalam: “കലിമന്താൻ‌”
  • Marathi: “कालीमंतान”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kalimantan”
  • Minangkabau: “Kalimantan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalimantan”
  • Norwegian: “Kalimantan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kalimantan”
  • Pampanga: “Kalimantan”
  • Persian: “کالیمانتان”
  • Piemontese: “Kalimantan”
  • Polish: “Kalimantan”
  • Portuguese: “Calimantã”
  • Portuguese: “Kalimantan”
  • Pushto: “کاليمانتان”
  • Russian: “Индонезийский Калимантан”
  • Samogitian: “Kalimantans”
  • Scots: “Kalimantan”
  • Serbian: “Калимантан”
  • Slovenian: “Kalimantan”
  • Spanish: “Kalimantan”
  • Sundanese: “Kalimantan”
  • Swahili: “Kalimantan”
  • Swedish: “Kalimantan”
  • Tagalog: “Kalimantan”
  • Tamil: “கலிமந்தன்”
  • Tamil: “கலிமந்தான்”
  • Turkish: “Kalimantan”
  • Ukrainian: “Індонезійський Калімантан”
  • Urdu: “کالیمانتان”
  • Uzbek: “Kalimantan”
  • Vietnamese: “Kalimantan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kalimantan”
  • Western Panjabi: “کالیمانتان”
  • Wu Chinese: “加里曼丹”
  • Yue Chinese: “加里曼丹”
  • “Kalimantan”
  • “Kalimantans”

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