Balikpapan

Balikpapan is a city in the province of East Kalimantan in Indonesia. Indonesia treats it as a city (kota) at the regency level, and the figures compiled by City Population count 688,318 inhabitants at the 2020 census, against 557,579 at the 2010 census. GeoNames places Balikpapan at latitude -1.26753 and longitude 116.82887, about 67 metres above sea level by its digital elevation model, in the Asia/Makassar time zone of the IANA database, which is UTC+8. GeoNames records Balikpapan as the seat of a second-order administrative division, so it is not the capital of East Kalimantan. GeoNames carries its own population figure of 695,287. The atlas places it in the South-eastern Asia subregion of Asia.