Tarakan

Tarakan is a city in the province of North Kalimantan in Indonesia. Indonesia treats it as a city (kota) at the regency level, and the figures compiled by City Population count 242,786 inhabitants at the 2020 census, against 193,370 at the 2010 census. GeoNames places Tarakan at latitude 3.31332 and longitude 117.59152, about 29 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 Tarakan as a populated place, so it is not the capital of North Kalimantan. GeoNames carries its own population figure of 255,310. The atlas places it in the South-eastern Asia subregion of Asia.