Borneo - Administration

Administration

The island of Borneo is divided administratively by three countries. It is the only island in the world so divided (because although Scotland, England, and Wales are traditionally separate countries, they are now part of a single entity, the United Kingdom):

The Indonesian provinces of East, South, West and Central Kalimantan
The Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak (the Federal Territory of Labuan is located on nearshore islands of Borneo, but not on the island of Borneo itself)
The independent country of Brunei (main part and eastern exclave of Temburong)

Federal State or Province	Capital	Part of country	Area km2	Area %	Population Censuses of 2000 1)	Population Censuses of 2010 3)	Population %
Brunei	Bandar Seri Begawan	Independent Sultanate	5,770	0.77	320,000	406,200	2.1
Sarawak	Kuching	Malaysia	124,450	16.6	2,012,616	2,420,009	12.2
Sabah	Kota Kinabalu	Malaysia	73,619	9.8	2,449,389	3,120,040	15.7
Labuan 2)	Victoria	Malaysia Federal territory	92	0.01	70,517	85,272	0.4
Malaysian Borneo		Malaysia	198,161	26.4	4,532,522	5,625,321	28.4
West Kalimantan	Pontianak	Indonesia	146,760	19.5	4,034,198	4,393,239	22.2
Central Kalimantan	Palangkaraya	Indonesia	152,600	20.3	1,855,473	2,202,599	11.1
South Kalimantan	Banjarmasin	Indonesia	37,660	5.0	2,984,026	3,626,119	18.3
East Kalimantan	Samarinda	Indonesia	210,985	28.1	2,455,120	3,550,586	17.9
Kalimantan		Indonesia	548,005	72.9	11,328,817	13,772,543	69.5
Borneo	–	3 countries	751,936	100.0	16,196,924	19,804,064	100.0

1) Brunei: Census of Population 2001 2) islands administered as Borneo, geologically part of Borneo, on nearshore islands (2.5 km off the main island of Borneo) 3) Citypopulation.de reports on Official Decennial Censuses in 2010 for both Indonesia and Malaysia, independent estimate for Brunei.