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.
- Type: City with 690,000 residents
- Description: city in West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Kota Besar Pontianak”, “Kota Pontianak (kabupaten i Indonesien)”, “Kota Pontianak (kabupaten sa Indonesia)”, “Kotapraja Pontianak”, “Pontianak (stad)”, “Pontianak City”, “Pontianaq”, “Pontijanak”, “Pontiyanaq”, “بونتياناك (اندونسيا)”, “ᨄᨚᨈᨗᨕᨊ”, and “庞提纳克”
Places of Interest
Highlights: West Kalimantan Provincial Museum and St.Joseph Cathedral.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Benua Melayu Darat and Sungai Bangkong.
Pontianak
- Categories: city of Indonesia, Kota Besar, Kotapraja, capital of regency, and locality
- Location: West Kalimantan, Kalimantan, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-0.0227° or 0° 1′ 22″ south
Longitude
109.3447° or 109° 20′ 41″ east
Population
690,000
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
IATA airport code
PNK
UN/LOCODE
ID PNK
Open location code
6PFFX8GV+WV
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Pontianak” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Pontianak”
- Afrikaans: “Pontianak”
- 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: “ᨄᨚᨈᨗᨐᨊ”
- Bulgarian: “Понтианак”
- Catalan: “Pontianak”
- Cebuano: “Pontianak”
- Chinese: “坤甸”
- Czech: “Pontianak”
- Danish: “Pontianak”
- 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: “Kota Pontianak”
- 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 Chhī”
- 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”
- “Pontianak”
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