Bintuni (''Dutch: Steenkool'') is a small town and administrative district (''kecamatan'') in West Papua,

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and seat of the

Teluk Bintuni Regency Teluk Bintuni Regency (or Bintuni Bay Regency) is a regency of West Papua Province of Indonesia. It covers an area of 18,637 km2, comprising administrative districts on three sides of Bintuni Bay, a gulf that separates the Bird's Head Peninsula an ...

. It comprises two villages (West Bintuni and East Bintuni) with a combined population of 13,795 at the 2010 Census. The town is located near the southeast coast of the

Bird's Head Peninsula The Bird's Head Peninsula ( Indonesian: ''Kepala Burung'', nl, Vogelkop) or Doberai Peninsula (''Semenanjung Doberai''), is a large peninsula that makes up the northwest portion of the island of New Guinea, comprising the Indonesian provinces o ...

Bintuni Bay Bintuni Bay ( id, Teluk Bintuni) is the eastward extension or inner bay of Berau Gulf off Bird's Head Peninsula of New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; id, Papua, or , historically ) is the world's second-largest island wi ...

. It is served by

Steenkool Airport Steenkool Airport (also known as Bintuni Airport) is an airport located in West Bintuni, Bintuni, West Papua, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and P ...

. The district had 24,742 inhabitants in 2018.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2020.

Climate

Bintuni has a

tropical rainforest climate A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southea ...

(Af) with heavy rainfall in all months except July and August.

References

Populated places in West Papua Regency seats of West Papua (province) {{WPapua-geo-stub