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Pontianak Kota (Pontianak town in English) is a district (Indonesian:kecamatan) of the city of Pontianak. It lies on the south bank of the Kapuas Besar River and covers an area of 15.98 km 2 . It had a population of 110,111 at the 2010 census; [ 1 ] the latest official estimate of population (as at mid 2019) is 1227,700. [ 2 ]
Pontianak [a], also known as Khuntien in Hakka, is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Kalimantan, founded first as a trading port on the island of Borneo, occupying an area of 118.21 km 2 in the delta of the Kapuas River, at a point where it is joined by its major tributary, the Landak River.
After that, Pontianak was obliged to hand over all the commodities that the Dutch wanted. The planting of crops was also closely monitored by the Dutch. In addition, export and import taxes must be shared between the Netherlands and the Pontianak Sultanate. The Pontianak Sultanate also allowed the Dutch to build a fort west of the Kapuas River. [3]
Mempawah Regency (formerly called the Pontianak Regency) is a regency of West Kalimantan Province of Indonesia.Originally including a wider area of West Kalimantan, this Pontianak Regency was reduced on 4 October 1999 by the north-eastern districts (formerly the majority of the regency's land area) being removed to form a new Landak Regency, and was further reduced on 17 July 2007 by its ...
Tangga Batu is a federal constituency in Central Melaka District, Malacca, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 2004.. The federal constituency was created in the 2003 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
The Pontianak Sultanate was founded in 1771 by explorers from Hadhramaut led by al-Sayyid Syarif Abdurrahman al-Kadrie, a son of a Hadramaut Arab cleric from the Mempawah Kingdom and descendant of Imam Ali al-Uraidhi ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq, on Wednesday, 23 October 1771 (14 Rajab 1185 H) which was marked by clearing the forest at the junction of the Landak River, Kapuas Kecil River, and Kapuas ...
West Kalimantan and Sarawak have open roads approximately 400 km long, spanning Pontianak-Entikong-Kuching (Sarawak, Malaysia) and can be reached about six to eight hours of travel. In the northern part of the province, there are four regencies that directly borders Malaysia, namely Sambas , Sanggau , Sintang and Kapuas Hulu , which stretch ...
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