The town of Malinau is one of the districts of
Malinau Regency in
North Kalimantan
North Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the northernmost of Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. North Kalimantan borders the Malaysian states of Sabah to the north and Sarawak t ...
Province of
Indonesia
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and is also the administrative capital of the Regency. The latest official estimate of population (as at mid 2021) was 27,140.
[Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2022.]
Malinau town has the highest population density within
Malinau Regency, at 191.0 people / km ² (as at 2021), in an area of only 142.07 km ².
Climate
Malinau 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 to very heavy rainfall year-round.
See also
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List of regencies and cities of Indonesia
Regencies (''kabupaten'') and cities (''kota'') are the second-level administrative subdivision in Indonesia, immediately below the provinces, and above the districts. Regencies are roughly equivalent to American counties, although most citi ...
References
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Regency seats of North Kalimantan