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8 unusual facts about West Kalimantan


Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid

A team of researchers sets off into an island of South Kalimantan and West Kalimantan to search for a "blood orchid", a flower they believe can be used as a type of fountain of youth.

Carinotetraodon irrubesco

Carinotetraodon irrubesco, known commonly as the red-tail dwarf puffer, is a freshwater pufferfish found only in the lower Banjuasin basin in South Sumatra and the Sambas River in West Kalimantan.

Cats FM

The radio covers areas of Sarawak and certain parts of Sabah, Labuan, West Kalimantan and Brunei.

Gawai Dayak

Gawai Dayak is a festival celebrated by Dayaks in Sarawak and West Kalimantan which is officially public holidays on 1 June and 2 June every year in Sarawak, Malaysia.

Kalbar

West Kalimantan, known in Indonesian as Kalimantan Barat and abbreviated to Kalbar

Lasia

Lasia was believed to be a monotypic genus until 1997 when a wild population of Lasia concinna was discovered in a farmer's paddy field in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

SMA Negeri 4 Pontianak

Sekolah Menengah Atas Negeri 4 Pontianak is one of the Public Schools in the Province of West Kalimantan, Indonesia.

West Kalimantan

In the 1960s the Indonesian government granted the Madurese rights to clear lands from forest for palm oil cultivation.


Bay cat

In the mid 1990s, the most reliable sightings have been reported from the upper Kapuas River in West Kalimantan, and from the Gunung Palung National Park.

Bidayuh

They constitute one of the main indigenous groups in Sarawak & West Kalimantan and live in towns and villages around Kuching and Samarahan in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, while in West Kalimantan they are mainly concentrated in the northern Sanggau Regency.

Greater Sunda Islands

It contains all of Brunei, the Indonesian provinces of Central, East, West, North, and South Kalimantan, and the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak.

Malayisation

In the west, the development of such sultanates of Sambas, Sukadana and Landak tells a similar tale of recruitment among Dayak people.


see also

Bengkayang Regency

Bengkayang is located in northern West Kalimantan, sharing a border with Sarawak in Malaysia.

Museum Negeri Pontianak

Museum Negeri Pontianak is a museum in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, near Tanjungpura University.

Sultan Abdul Hamid II

Sultan Hamid II (1913–1978), last Sultan of Pontianak, only President of the State of West Kalimantan