Singkawang
Singkawang, or San-Khew-Jong, is a coastal city and port located in the province of West Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. It is located at about 145 km north of Pontianak, the provincial capital, and is surrounded by the Pasi, Poteng, and Sakkok mountains.
- Type: City with 239,000 residents
- Description: city in West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Sekawang” and “Singkawang City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vihara Tri Dharma Bumi Raya and Singkawang Grand Mall.
Singkawang Grand Mall
Building
Singkawang Grand Mall is a shopping mall in Singkawang, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. This mall was officially opened in 2015 and since that time become the largest shopping mall in West Kalimantan.
Singkawang Thai Pak Kung Temple
Buddhist temple
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roban and Sekip Lama.
Singkawang
- Categories: city of Indonesia and locality
- Location: West Kalimantan, Kalimantan, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
0.907° or 0° 54′ 25″ north
Longitude
108.989° or 108° 59′ 20″ east
Population
239,000
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
IATA airport code
SKJ
United Nations Location Code
ID SKW
Open location code
6PGCWX4Q+QH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
Discover Singkawang from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Singkawang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سينغكوانغ”
- Arabic: “سينقكاوانق”
- Balinese: “Kota Singkawang”
- Banjar: “Kuta Singkawang”
- Bengali: “সিংকাওয়াং”
- Betawi: “Kota Singkawang”
- Buginese: “Singkawang”
- Catalan: “Singkawang”
- Cebuano: “Singkawang”
- Central Bikol: “Singkawang”
- Central Kanuri: “San-Khew-Jong”
- Chinese: “Singkawang Chhī”
- Chinese: “三口洋”
- Chinese: “山口洋”
- Chinese: “山口洋市”
- Chinese: “辛卡旺”
- Danish: “Singkawang”
- Dutch: “Singkawang”
- Esperanto: “Singkavang”
- Finnish: “Singkawang”
- French: “Singkawang”
- German: “Kota Singkawang”
- German: “Singkawang”
- Gorontalo: “Singkawang”
- Greek: “Σινγκαγουάνγκ”
- Gujarati: “સિંગકાવાંગ”
- Hindi: “सिंगकावंग”
- Hindi: “सिंगावांग”
- Iban: “Singkawang”
- Indonesian: “Kota Singkawang”
- Indonesian: “Sakawokng”
- Indonesian: “Salako”
- Indonesian: “San-Khew-Jong”
- Indonesian: “Singkawang”
- Irish: “Singkawang”
- Italian: “Singkawang”
- Japanese: “シンカワン”
- Javanese: “Kutha Singkawang”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಂಕಾವಂಗ್”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಂಗವಾವಾಂಗ್”
- Komering: “Singkawang”
- Korean: “싱카왕”
- Latvian: “Sinkavanga”
- Lithuanian: “Sinkavangas”
- Malagasy: “Kota Singkawang”
- Malay: “Kota Singkawang”
- Malay: “Singkawang”
- Malay: “سيڠکاوڠ”
- Marathi: “सिंगकावांग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Singkawang Chhī”
- Minangkabau: “Singkawang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Singkawang”
- Norwegian: “Singkawang”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Singkawang”
- Persian: “سینگکاوانگ”
- Persian: “سینگکوانگ”
- Polish: “Singkawang”
- Portuguese: “Singkawang”
- Russian: “Сингкаванг”
- Russian: “Синкаванг”
- Sinhala: “සින්කවාන්”
- Spanish: “Singkawang”
- Sundanese: “Kota Singkawang”
- Sundanese: “Singkawang”
- Swedish: “Singkawang”
- Tamil: “சிங்கவாங்”
- Tatar: “Сиңкаваң”
- Telugu: “సింగ్కావంగ్”
- Thai: “ซิงกาวัง”
- Turkish: “Singkawang”
- Ukrainian: “Сінкаванг”
- Urdu: “سنگکاوانگ”
- Venetian: “Singkawang”
- Vietnamese: “Singkawang”
- “Kota Singkawang”
- “Singkawang”
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