East Kalimantan Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
province of Indonesia
About East Kalimantan
In 2022, President Joko Widodo announced that Indonesia would be moving its capital from Jakarta to a new purpose-built city in East Kalimantan known asNusantarain attempt to lessen the developmental inequality between Java and Indonesia's other islands. The location would be somewhere between the existing cities of Balikpapan and Samarinda. East Kalimantan is onBorneo, a large island shared withMalaysiaandBrunei. In the east, it is separated fromWest SulawesiandNorth Sulawesiby the wide Sulawesi/Makassar Strait. East Kalimantan is one of Borneo's most sparsely-populated regions. With a population of only 3 million people and a land area of204,534km(78,971sqmi), the population density is only 17 inhabitants per km. Most of the population are Javanese. The indigenous Kutai people traditiona
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