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Kalimantan

Kalimantan

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The Indonesian part of the island of Borneo with large rainforests and many natural resources
  • proper noun
translation icon : Kalimantan
  • The southern two-thirds of Borneo constitute the Indonesian state of Kalimantan.
  • Kalimantan, Indonesia
  • East Kalimantan
  • forests in Kalimantan

Examples

  • The most highly integrated and developed provinces on a per capita basis, East Kalimantan, North and South Sumatra, Riau, and North Sulawesi, are spatially separated both from one another and from Jakarta.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Under guard, the samples are sent down river to independent labs in Kalimantan.

  • But a recent study of the local economic impacts of the timber industry in East Kalimantan suggests that such benefits are minimal.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Small reserves can be effective wildlife sanctuaries: Sungai Wain, East Kalimantan.

    Academic text (2011)
  • The Sebangau catchment in central Kalimantan supports the largest single orangutan population in Borneo (Morrogh-Bernard et al. 2003).

    Academic text (2011)
  • Pulong Tau, now about 150,000 acres, is part of a conservation project straddling the border between Sarawak and Indonesia's Kalimantan province.

    Academic text (2007)
  • In Indonesia, some of the Outer Island provinces, especially parts of Sumatra and Kalimantan, have long resented the disproportionate benefits that flow to Java from export earnings generated in the periphery.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The southern two-thirds of Borneo constitute the Indonesian state of Kalimantan.

  • Intense logging in Kalimantan, Indonesia's two-thirds of the Pacific island of Borneo, isn't news.

  • Pulong Tau, now about 150,000 acres, is part of a conservation project straddling the border between Sarawak and Indonesia's Kalimantan province.

Synonyms

Indonesian Borneo
vsKalimantan
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The southern part of the island of Borneo that belongs to Indonesia, called Kalimantan

has identical meaning but is the alternative or local name for that region

Surface Forms

Kalimantan main

Etymology

Kalimantan is the Malay and Indonesian name for the island of Borneo and is used today for the Indonesian part of that island. A helpful way to remember Kalimantan is to think of it as the local name for a big, tropical land of rainforests and rivers, which matches the region's well-known nature and resources.