Sintang Regency is a

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West Kalimantan West Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Barat) is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five Indonesian provinces comprising Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. Its capital city is Pontianak. The province has an area of 147,307&nbs ...

province of

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. It covers an area of 21,638.2 km², and had a population of 364,759 at the 2010 Census, 395,890 at the 2015 Census and 421,306 at the 2020 Census. It is one among few Indonesian regencies that has land border to other countries. It is also the second largest regency in the province by land area after Landak Regency. The regency was former site of Sintang Kingdom, a Hindu kingdom that later converted to Islam, which was a regional power in interior of Borneo island. The regency seat is located at large town of Sintang, which is among biggest settlement in Borneo interior alongside

Putussibau Putussibau is an Indonesian town in Kapuas Hulu Regency, West Kalimantan. It sits on the river Kapuas, with the main part of the town located on the right banks, or north, of the river. Officially an administrative village (''Kelurahan Putussibau ...

and Puruk Cahu.

History

Somewhere between 45000-39000 B.C Sintang would be inhabited by humans. The area would change hands serval times From the

Majapahit Majapahit ( jv, ꦩꦗꦥꦲꦶꦠ꧀; ), also known as Wilwatikta ( jv, ꦮꦶꦭ꧀ꦮꦠꦶꦏ꧀ꦠ; ), was a Javanese Hindu-Buddhist thalassocratic empire in Southeast Asia that was based on the island of Java (in modern-day Indonesia ...

to the Bruneian Sultanate when the Dutch arrived at Borneo in 1776 the area would shortly be occupied by the Dutch The Area was occupied by the

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in 1941 as a result of WW2 then would be Liberated in 1945 Followed by this was the Indonesian Independence

Geography

Climate

Sintang, the seat of the regency has a

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(Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

Governance

Administrative Districts

Following the separation of the former southern part (eleven districts) to form the separate Melawi Regency in 2003, the residual Sintang Regency consists of fourteen

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(''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and 2020 Census.

Economy

Demographics

Infrastructure

Education

There are 193 kindergartens, 456 elementary schools, 142 junior highschools, and 44 senior highschools. In addition, there are 18 vocational highschools. The regency has total 10 universities and higher education institutions as of 2020, most of which are located in town of Sintang. One of the most notable in the regency is Kapuas Sintang University, located in Sintang district. The university is private and located close to Kapuas River. It was previously known as Panca Bhakti Teaching and Education College before becoming a university. Muhammadiyah University in Pontianak also has campus branch in Sintang, which is also private. Other colleges in the regency include Christian theological schools such as Sintang Khatulistiwa Theological College, Injili Setia Sintang Theological College, Kapuas Raya Christian College, and Immanuel Sintang Kalbar Theological College. In addition, there is a public nurse academy owned by West Kalimantan provincial government and one private Islamic college, Ma'arif Sintang Islamic College. The regency government also runs regional library, located on town of Sintang.

References

Regencies of West Kalimantan {{WKalimantan-geo-stub