Pontianak City

If you have a plan to visit Pontianak , the capital City of West Kalimantan, then you have to know where its location and how to reach the place.  As you know by now that the Pontianak city now have been developing for years to improve its facilities to many people.  The city was well known as Equator city that crossed the city into the two parts.  You can reach the city very easy from anywhere else in Indonesia. For example, if you are now located in Jakarta, then you can take direct flight from Jakarta to Pontianak with many air plane providers such as Garuda Indonesia, Batavia Air, Lion Air, and also many oth...

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About West Kalimantan

West Kalimantan (Indonesian: Kalimantan Barat often abbreviated to Kalbar) is a province of Indonesia. It is one of four Indonesian provinces in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Its capital city Pontianak is located right on the Equator line. The province has an area of 146,807 km² with the population of about 3.74 million people (As of 2000[update] census).Major ethnic groups include the Dayak, Malay, Chinese, which make up about 90% of the total population. The rest are Javanese, Bugis, Madurese, and other ethnicities. The borders of West Kalimantan roughly trace the mountain ranges surrounding the watershed of the Kapuas River, which drains most of the province. West Kalimantan is subdivided into two urban cities (kota) and ten rural regencies (kabupaten). The cities...

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