Kalimantan Utara

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Kalimantan Utara
Province coat of arms
Basic data
Area : 72,567 km²
Residents : 738.163
Population density : 10 inhabitants / km²
Capital : Tanjung Selor
governor Irianto Lambrie
Location in Indonesia
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Topographic map of the province

Kalimantan Utara ( Northern Kalimantan ) is a province of Indonesia in the northeast of the island of Borneo .

geography

The province borders in the west on Sabah (Malaysia) , in the north on Sarawak | Sarawak (Malaysia) and in the south on the province Kalimantan Timur . In the east the Celebes Sea ( according to Sulawesi ) forms the natural border. The province has an area of ​​75,467.70 km² (13.84% of the area of ​​the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo) and is the second smallest before the province of Kalimantan Selatan .

The province includes 849,615 islands, more than half (499,363) of which belong to the Bulungan administrative district.

Administrative division

Code Wilayah
area code 		coat of arms Kabupaten / Kota
administrative district / city 		Ibu Kota seat of
government! 		Kecamatan Sub-
District 		Keluruhan / Desa
municipality 		Area [km²] Population
[2019] 		Inh. / Km²
[2019]
65.01 Lambang Kabupaten Bulungan.png Kabupaten Bulungan Tanjung Selor 10 7/74 13,925.72 140,527 10.1
65.02 Lambang Kabupaten Malinau.jpeg Kabupaten Malinau Malinau 15th - / 109 42,620.70 80,822 1.9
65.03 Lambang Kabupaten Nunukan.gif Kabupaten Nunukan Nununkan 19th 8/232 13,841.90 182.028 13.2
65.04 Lambang Kabupaten Tana Tendung.jpg Kabupaten Tana Tleid Tideng Pale 5 - / 32 4,828.58 24,145 5.0
65.71 Lambang Kota Tarakan.gif Kota Tarakan Tarakan 4th 20 / - 250.80 231.013 921.1
65 Provinsi Kalimantan Utara Tanjung Selor 53 35/447 75,467.70 658,535 8.7

Source of the administrative and area data: Peraturan Menteri Dalam Negeri RI Nomor 72 Tahun 2019 (Ordinance of the Minister of the Interior of October 2019):
The population data are based on updates by the regional civil registration offices and are from the end of 2019

population

With 658,000 inhabitants, the province of Kalimantan Utara ranks last of all 34 provinces. The proportion of Kalimantan is 4.02%.

73% of the population are Islamists, 20.28% are Protestants and 6.02% are Catholics. The other beliefs are each represented with less than one percent.

history

The province was founded on November 16, 2012 as the 34th province of Indonesia. Until then, the four administrative districts ( Kabupaten ) and the city ( Kota ) of Tarak belonged to the province of Kalimantan Timur.

literature

  • Herwig Zahorka: Kerayan - an inaccessible highland in the interior of Borneo with megaliths, wet rice cultures and missionary work from the air. In: Tribus - Yearbook of the Linden Museum Stuttgart, Vol. 55, 2006, pp. 221–245

Web links

Commons : Kalimantan Utara  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Provinsi Maluku Utara Dalam Angka 2020, p. 13 (66)
  2. ↑ Peraturan Menteri Dalam Negeri RI Nomor 72 Tahun 2019: page 6, 2783
  3. ↑ Visualisasi Data Kependudukan , clickable map
  4. ↑ Directorate Jenderal Kependudukan dan Pencatatan Sipil - Kementerian Dalam Negeri - Peta Persebaran Agama - Provinsi 2019 , clickable map
  5. ↑ The Jakarta Globe: House Agrees on Creation of Indonesia's 34th Province: 'North Kalimantan' , October 22, 2012 ( Memento of January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

Coordinates: 3 ° 0 '  N , 117 ° 0'  E