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List of regencies and cities in East Kalimantan

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Map of regencies and cities

As of 2025, East Kalimantan consists of 7 regencies and 3 cities. These are listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and 2020 Census, together with the official estimates as at mid 2023. The totals below have been adjusted to take account of the removal of North Kalimantan.

Regional code
(Kode wilayah)		 Name of
City or
Regency		 Area
in
km		 Pop'n
2010
census		 Pop'n
2015
census		 Pop'n
2020
census		 Pop'n
mid 2023
estimate		 Capital HDI
2019		 Location map
64.01 Paser Regency 11,603.94 230,316 261,736 275,452 303,424 Tanah Grogot 0.723 (High)
64.02 West Kutai Regency
(Kutai Barat)		 20,384.60 165,934 145,728 172,288 177,007 Sendawar 0.716 (High)
64.03 Kutai Kartanegara Regency 27,263.10 626,680 716,319 729,382 788,113 Tenggarong 0.738 (High)
64.04 East Kutai Regency
(Kutai Timur)		 31,239.84 255,637 318,950 434,459 455,504 Sangatta 0.735 (High)
64.05 Berau Regency 36,962.37 179,079 208,394 248,035 280,998 Tanjung Redeb 0.749 (High)
64.09 Penajam North Paser Regency
(Penajam Paser Utara)		 3,333.06 142,922 154,020 178,681 196,566 Penajam 0.716 (High)
64.11 Mahakam Ulu Regency
(Mahakam Ulu)		 18,427.81 25,946 32,513 38,498 Ujoh Bilang 0.676 (Medium)
64.71 Balikpapan City 511.01 557,579 614,663 688,318 738,532 Balikpapan 0.801 (Very High)
64.72 Samarinda City 718.00 727,500 811,314 827,994 861,878 Samarinda 0.802 (Very High)
64.73 Bontang City 161.88 143,683 165,606 178,917 189,968 Bontang 0.801 (Very High)
Totals 127,346.92 3,028,487 3,422,676 3,766,039 4,030,488 Samarinda 0.766 (High)

As of July 2023, the new capital of Nusantara (tentatively designated IKN Nusantara) has not officially gazetted separate as a jurisdiction per Interior Ministry in practice, but is reported to cover 2,561 km. including 682 km of sea; it includes a central likely government heavy area named KIPP with IKN, would occupy 66.7 km and 200,000 strong staffers and families from Jakarta. liputan reports.

The province now forms one of Indonesia's 84 national electoral districts to elect members to the People's Representative Council. The East Kalimantan Electoral District consists of all of the 7 regencies and 3 cities in the province, and elects 8 members to the People's Representative Council. For the present Parliament, this includes the area and population of the newly-designated national capital of Nusantara.

History

During its first years since its creation in 1956, East Kalimantan was composed of three regency-level special regions — Kutai, Berau and Bulungan — all of them were led by the respective sultans. Later on 26 June 1959, Balikpapan and Samarinda were split from the outgoing Special Region of Kutai, while Pasir (later known as Paser) was split from Kotabaru Regency in South Kalimantan and transferred to East Kalimantan, therefore increasing its number to six. At the same time, special statuses of each regency were removed.

On 8 October 1997, a third city – Tarakan – was created from part of Bulungan Regency. On 4 October 1999 a fourth city – Bontang – was created from part of Kutai Regency, while four new regencies were created – Malinau and Nunukan from parts of Bulungan, and East Kutai and West Kutai from the remaining parts of Kutai Regency (which later renamed in 2002).

Two further regencies were set up – Penajam North Paser from northern parts of Pasir on 10 April 2002, and Tana Tidung from northern parts of Bulungan on 17 July 2007. By early 2012 therefore, East Kalimantan was divided into ten regencies and four cities.

On 22 October 2012, the Indonesian House of Representatives agreed to the creation of a new province out of the four most northerly of the Regencies in East Kalimantan, namely Bulungan, Malinau, Nunukan and Tana Tidung, together with one city, Tarakan. Accordingly, these were split off to form the new province of North Kalimantan on 25 October 2012.

The existing West Kutai Regency was then split into two on 11 January 2013, with the northern districts split off to form Mahakam Ulu, thus leaving the following seven regencies and three cities to comprise the reduced East Kalimantan.

References

  1. Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011.
  2. Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.
  3. Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 28 February 2024, Provinsi Kalimantan Timur Dalam Angka 2024 (Katalog-BPS 1102001.64)
  4. "Badan Pusat Statistik".
  5. Law No. 7/2017 (UU No. 7 Tahun 2017) as amended by Government Regulation in Lieu of Law No. 1/2022 and Regulation of General Elections Commission No. 6/2023.
  6. "UU No. 25 Tahun 1956". peraturan.bpk.go.id. Retrieved 2024-11-11.
  7. "UU No. 27 Tahun 1959". peraturan.bpk.go.id. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  8. "UU No. 29 Tahun 1997". peraturan.bpk.go.id. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  9. "UU No. 47 Tahun 1999". peraturan.bpk.go.id. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  10. "UU No. 7 Tahun 2002". peraturan.bpk.go.id. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  11. "UU No. 34 Tahun 2007". peraturan.bpk.go.id. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
  12. "UU No. 2 Tahun 2013". peraturan.bpk.go.id. Retrieved 2024-12-30.
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