List of regencies and cities in East Kalimantan

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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 [1] and 2020 Census, [2] together with the official estimates as at mid 2023. [3] The totals below have been adjusted to take account of the removal of North Kalimantan. Cities in this table are marked by grey background, while regencies are left unmarked.

Contents

Regional code
(Kode wilayah)		Name of
City or
Regency		Area
in
km2		Pop'n
2010
census		Pop'n
2015
census		Pop'n
2020
census		Pop'n
mid 2023
estimate		Capital HDI [4]
2019		Location map
64.01 Paser 11,603.94230,316261,736275,452303,424 Tanah Grogot 0.723 (High) 64.01.00 KalimantanTimur Paser.svg
64.02 Kutai Kartanegara 27,263.10626,680716,319729,382788,113 Tenggarong 0.738 (High) 64.02.00 KalimantanTimur Kutai Kartanegara.svg
64.03 Berau 36,962.37179,079208,394248,035280,998 Tanjung Redeb 0.749 (High) 64.03.00 KalimantanTimur Berau.svg
64.07 West Kutai
(Kutai Barat)		20,384.60165,934145,728172,288177,007 Sendawar 0.716 (High) 64.07.00 KalimantanTimur Kutai Barat.svg
64.08 East Kutai
(Kutai Timur)		31,239.84255,637318,950434,459455,504 Sangatta 0.735 (High) 64.08.00 KalimantanTimur Kutai Timur.svg
64.09 Penajam North Paser
(Penajam Paser Utara)		3,333.06142,922154,020178,681196,566 Penajam 0.716 (High) 64.09.00 KalimantanTimur Penajam Paser Utara.svg
64.12 Mahakam Ulu 18,427.8125,94632,51338,498 Ujoh Bilang 0.676 (Medium) 64.12.00 KalimantanTimur Mahakam Ulu.svg
64.71 Balikpapan 511.01557,579614,663688,318738,532 Balikpapan 0.801 (Very High) 64.71.00 KalimantanTimur Balikpapan.svg
64.72 Samarinda 718.00727,500811,314827,994861,878 Samarinda 0.802 (Very High) 64.72.00 KalimantanTimur Samarinda.svg
64.73 Bontang 161.88143,683165,606178,917189,968 Bontang 0.801 (Very High) 64.74.00 KalimantanTimur Bontang.svg
Totals127,346.923,028,4873,422,6763,766,0394,030,488 Samarinda 0.766 (High) 64.00.00 KalimantanTimur.svg

As of July 2023, the new capital of Nusantara (tentatively designated Ibu Kota Nusantara or IKN) has not officially gazetted separate as a jurisdiction per Interior Ministry in practice, but is reported to cover 2,561 km2. including 682 km2 of sea; it includes a central likely government heavy area named KIPP with IKN, would occupy 66.7 km2 and 200,000 strong staffers and families from Jakarta. [5]

The province 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 the entire province (at-large), 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. [6]

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. [7] 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. [8]

On 24 April 1969, transfers of several districts occurred between Kutai, Samarinda and Balikpapan. Muara Jawa, Palaran, Sanga-Sanga Dalam, and parts of Samboja were given to Samarinda, while Penajam was given to Balikpapan. [9] On 21 October 1987, another administrative transfers occurred, of which Samarinda returned the aforementioned districts to Kutai (except Palaran, in exchange, the city received several villages from Anggana, Sanga-Sanga and Loa Janan), while Pasir received Penajam (then known as Balikpapan Seberang). [10]

On 8 October 1997, a third city – Tarakan – was created from part of Bulungan Regency. [11] 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). [12]

Two further regencies were set up – Penajam North Paser from northern parts of Pasir on 10 April 2002, [13] and Tana Tidung from northern parts of Bulungan on 17 July 2007. [14] 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. [15]

Proposals

In the early days of the Kutai Regency in 1960s, there was a proposal to split the regency into three: Pantai (lit. "littoral", capital: Samboja), Ulu Mahakam (not to be confused with present-day Mahakam Ulu, capital: Barong Tongkok), and Kutai with residual territory. However, in 24 April 1969, through a gubernatorial decree, the Kutai transferred several of its districts to Samarinda and Balikpapan, due to the fact that both cities were the capitals of East Kutai and South Kutai districts (kewedanaan). [9]

Since the separation of North Kalimantan from East Kalimantan, the following gallery includes the current proposals of new cities and regencies:

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