Sangkulirang is a town and sub district of

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,

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. The town lies in the northern part of the

Makassar Strait Makassar Strait is a strait between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia. To the north it joins the Celebes Sea, while to the south it meets the Java Sea. To the northeast, it forms the Sangkulirang Bay south of the Mangkalihat Pe ...

and at the base of the

Mangkalihat Peninsula Cape Mangkalihat, also known as Cape Sangkulirang, is a cape in eastern Borneo. It is located in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan, in the regencies of Berau and East Kutai. The cape, as part of the Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Karst, is n ...

. Sangkulirang is situated in the delta of the

Karangan River Karangan or Karanagan or Kerengan ( fa, كرنگان) may refer to: * Karangan, East Azerbaijan * Karangan, Razavi Khorasan * Karangan, administrative division of Kulim district in the state of Kedah, Malaysia * Karangan River, which forms the Sa ...

, which forms the Sangkulirang bay on the east coast of

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. Most of the regency is vegetated with

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and has some notable karst areas with steep limestone cliffs.

References

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