1909 Atlas Sekolah Hindia-Nederland map of Kotawaringin

Kotawaringin, or also spelled Kota Waringin, was a

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on the south coast of

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. It covered an area in what is now the western part of the

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n province of

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. It then had a brief existence as an autonomous "native state" in the

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between 1949 and 1950, before being formally created as a separate Kotawaringin Regency within what was then the Province of

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(from which the western part (then consisting of three regencies - the ''kabupaten'' of Barito, Kapuas, and Kotawaringin) was split off in 1957 to form the new Central Kalimantan province). However, on 26 June 1959, Kotawaringin Regency was divided into a

West Kotawaringin Regency West Kotawaringin Regency () is one of the thirteen regencies which comprise the Central Kalimantan Province on the island of Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. It originally comprised the whole western part of the province, having been split from ...

and

East Kotawaringin Regency East Kotawaringin Regency () is one of the thirteen regencies which comprise the Central Kalimantan Province on the island of Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia. It originally covered a much larger part of the province, having been split from a singl ...

Former territory

On 10 April 2002 additional regencies were created by splitting the two existing regencies — Sukamara and Lamandau from parts of West Kotawaringin Regency, and Seruyan and Katingan from parts of East Kotawaringin Regency. In recent years, there has been some research into local attitudes, with a view to the putative re-establishment of Kotawaringin as a separate province, separate from the rest of Central Kalimantan, based upon the recognition of a shared identity of "Orang Kotawaringin". Such a province would cover an area of some 71,600 km² and would have a population as at 2023 of some 1.25 million people.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2024.

Former territory

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