Pontianak
Pontianak is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo, and bisected by the Equator. The city is mostly populated by ethnic Chinese, Dayaks and Malays, as well as significant numbers of minorities such as Bugis and Javanese.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 690,000 residents
- Description: city in West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Pontianak City” and “Pontijanak”
Places of Interest
Highlights include West Kalimantan Provincial Museum and St.Joseph Cathedral.
West Kalimantan Provincial Museum
Museum
Photo: Wiwil13, CC BY-SA 4.0.
West Kalimantan Provincial Museum is a museum in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, near Tanjungpura University. The concrete reliefs on the museum's exterior depict the lifestyles of Kalbar's two largest ethnic minorities: Malay and Dayak.
St.Joseph Cathedral
Church
Photo: Softwarestatistik, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Cathedral of Saint Joseph or simply Pontianak Cathedral is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia. It is the mother church and seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Pontianak.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sungai Bangkong and Benua Melayu Darat.
Pontianak
- Categories: city of Indonesia and locality
- Location: West Kalimantan, Kalimantan, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-0.0227° or 0° 1′ 22″ southLongitude
109.3447° or 109° 20′ 41″ eastPopulation
690,000Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)IATA airport code
PNKUnited Nations Location Code
ID PNKOpen location code
6PFFX8GV+WVOpenStreetMap ID
node 544513863OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1630789Wikidata ID
Q14168
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Pontianak” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pontianak”
- Afrikaans: “Pontianak”
- Arabic: “بونتياناك (اندونسيا)”
- Arabic: “بونتياناك”
- Asturian: “Pontianak”
- Balinese: “Kota Pontianak”
- Balinese: “Pontianak”
- Balinese: “ᬧᭀᬦ᭄ᬢᬶᬬᬦᬓ᭄”
- Banjar: “Kuta Pontianak”
- Basque: “Pontianak”
- Batak Mandailing: “Pontianak”
- Belarusian: “Пантыянак”
- Bengali: “পন্টিয়ানাক”
- Betawi: “Kota Pontianak”
- Buginese: “Pontianaq”
- Buginese: “Pontiyanaq”
- Buginese: “ᨄᨚᨈᨗᨐᨊ”
- Buginese: “ᨄᨚᨈᨗᨕᨊ”
- Bulgarian: “Понтианак”
- Catalan: “Pontianak”
- Cebuano: “Pontianak”
- Chinese: “Pontianak Chhī”
- Chinese: “坤甸”
- Chinese: “庞提纳克”
- Czech: “Pontianak”
- Danish: “Pontianak”
- Dutch: “Pontianak (stad)”
- Dutch: “Pontianak”
- Esperanto: “Pontianak”
- Finnish: “Pontianak”
- French: “Pontianak”
- German: “Pontianak”
- Gorontalo: “Kota Pontianak”
- Greek: “Ποντιανάκ”
- Gujarati: “પોન્ટીનાક”
- Hebrew: “פונטיאנאק”
- Hebrew: “פונטיאנק”
- Hindi: “पोन्टियानाक”
- Hungarian: “Pontianak”
- Iban: “Pontianak”
- Indonesian: “Kota Pontianak”
- Indonesian: “Pontianak”
- Irish: “Pontianak”
- Italian: “Pontianak”
- Japanese: “ポンティアナック”
- Javanese: “Kutha Pontianak”
- Kannada: “ಪಾಂಟಿಯಾನಾಕ್”
- Komering: “Pontianak”
- Korean: “폰티아낙”
- Latvian: “Pontianaka”
- Lithuanian: “Pontianakas”
- Malagasy: “Kota Pontianak”
- Malagasy: “Pontianak”
- Malay: “Kota Pontianak”
- Malay: “Pontianak”
- Malayalam: “പോണ്ടിയാനാക്”
- Marathi: “पँटीनाक”
- Marathi: “पोंतियानाक”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pontianak”
- Minangkabau: “Kota Pontianak”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pontianak”
- Norwegian: “Pontianak”
- Persian: “پونتیاناک”
- Persian: “پونتیانک”
- Polish: “Pontianak”
- Portuguese: “Pontianak”
- Romanian: “Pontianak, Indonezia”
- Russian: “Понтианак”
- Scots: “Pontianak, Indonesie”
- Scots: “Pontianak”
- Silesian: “Pontianak”
- Sinhala: “පොන්ටියනක්”
- Slovenian: “Pontianak”
- South Azerbaijani: “پونتیاناک”
- Spanish: “Pontianak”
- Sundanese: “Kota Pontianak”
- Swedish: “Pontianak”
- Tamil: “போன்டினாக்”
- Tatar: “Понтианак”
- Telugu: “పొంటియనక్”
- Thai: “ปนตียานัก”
- Thai: “ปนตีอานัก”
- Turkish: “Pontianak”
- Ukrainian: “Понтіанак”
- Urdu: “پونٹیانک، انڈونیشیا”
- Venetian: “Pontianak”
- Vietnamese: “Pontianak”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pontianak, Indonesya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Pontianak”
- Western Panjabi: “پونٹیاناک”
- Wu Chinese: “坤甸”
- Yue Chinese: “坤甸”
- “Kota Pontianak”
- “Pontianak”
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