Kalimantan
Kalimantan is the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, 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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Kalimantan
- Type: Region with 15,000,000 residents
- Description: geographical unit comprising Indonesian part of Borneo and other islands
- Also known as: “Indonesian Borneo”, “Indonēzijas Kalimantāna”, “Kalimantan (Indonesia)”, “Kalimantan states”, and “Индонезиско Борнео”
- Neighbors: Malaysia
- Category: geographical unit of Indonesia
- Location: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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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)
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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: “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”
- 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: “Kalimantāna”
- Lithuanian: “Kalimantanas”
- Lombard: “Kalimantan”
- 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”
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