Tarakan
Tarakan is a city on an island of the same name in East Kalimantan, and the largest city of the province of North Kalimantan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 240,000 residents
- Description: city in North Kalimantan Province, Indonesia
- Also known as: “Tarakan City”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mamburungan and Kampung Empat.
Tarakan
- Categories: city of Indonesia and locality
- Location: North Kalimantan, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
3.3° or 3° 18′ 0″ northLongitude
117.633° or 117° 37′ 59″ eastPopulation
240,000Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)IATA airport code
TRKUnited Nations Location Code
ID TRKOpen location code
6PMV8J2M+26OpenStreetMap ID
node 1811755606OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1624725Wikidata ID
Q14501
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Waray—“Tarakan” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tarakan”
- Arabic: “تاراكان”
- Armenian: “Տառական”
- Balinese: “Kota Tarakan”
- Bengali: “তারাকান”
- Betawi: “Kota Tarakan”
- Buginese: “Tarakan”
- Catalan: “Tarakan”
- Cebuano: “Tarakan”
- Chinese: “Tarakan Chhī”
- Chinese: “塔拉卡恩”
- Chinese: “打拉根”
- Czech: “Tarakan”
- Danish: “Tarakan”
- Dutch: “Tarakan”
- Esperanto: “Tarakan”
- Finnish: “Tarakan”
- French: “Tarakan”
- German: “Tarakan”
- Gorontalo: “Kota Tarakan”
- Greek: “Ταρακάν”
- Gujarati: “તરાકન”
- Hindi: “ताराकां”
- Indonesian: “Kota Tarakan”
- Indonesian: “Kotamadya Daerah Tingkat II Tarakan”
- Indonesian: “Tarakan, Kalimantan Utara”
- Indonesian: “Tarakan”
- Irish: “Tarakan”
- Italian: “Tarakan”
- Japanese: “タラカン”
- Japanese: “タラカン市”
- Javanese: “Kutha Tarakan”
- Kannada: “ತರಾಕನ್”
- Korean: “타라칸”
- Latvian: “Tarakana”
- Lithuanian: “Tarakanas”
- Malagasy: “Kota Tarakan”
- Malay: “Kota Tarakan”
- Malay: “Tarakan”
- Malayalam: “തരകൻ”
- Marathi: “तारकण”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Tarakan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tarakan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tarakan”
- Persian: “تاراکان)”
- Persian: “تاراکان”
- Polish: “Tarakan”
- Portuguese: “Tarakan”
- Romanian: “Tarakan, Kalimantan de Est”
- Russian: “Tarakan”
- Russian: “Таракан (город)”
- Russian: “Таракан (Индонезия)”
- Russian: “Таракан”
- Sinhala: “ටරකන්”
- Slovak: “Tarakan”
- Spanish: “Tarakan”
- Swedish: “Tarakan”
- Tamil: “தாராக்கான்”
- Tatar: “Таракан (шәһәр)”
- Tatar: “Таракан”
- Telugu: “తారాకాన్”
- Thai: “ตารากัน”
- Turkish: “Tarakan”
- Ukrainian: “Таракан”
- Urdu: “تاراکان، شمالی کالیمانتان”
- Urdu: “تاراکان”
- Uzbek: “Tarakan”
- Venetian: “Tarakan”
- Vietnamese: “Tarakan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tarakan”
- “Tarakan”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Tarakan”. Photo: Si Gam, CC0.