Sangatta is a town located in

East Kutai Regency East Kutai Regency ( id, Kabupaten Kutai Timur) is a regency of East Kalimantan province, Indonesia. It has an area of 35,747.50 km2 and had a population of 253,904 at the 2010 census and 434,459 at the 2020 census. The town of Sangatta is the ...

East Kalimantan East Kalimantan (Indonesian: ) is a province of Indonesia. Its territory comprises the eastern portion of Borneo. It had a population of about 3.03 million at the 2010 census (within the current boundary), 3.42 million at the 2015 census, and 3. ...

, Indonesia. It is however, not an autonomous city and consists of two districts within the regency, North Sangatta (the urban district, with 120,873 inhabitants in 2020) and South Sangatta (a largely rural area with 30,117 inhabitants in 2020). It is the location of

East Kutai coal mine The East Kutai Coal Mine is a coal mine located in the East Kutai Regency. The mine has coal reserves amounting to 2.73 billion tonnes of coking coal, one of the largest coal reserves in Asia Asia (, ) is one of the world's most notable g ...

, which is one of the biggest coal mines in the world, as well as the biggest in Asia.

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East Kutai Regency Populated places in East Kalimantan {{EKalimantan-geo-stub