 Welcome to the world's third island largest island: Kalimantan. Also called Borneo, this island covered the area of 540,000 square kilometers or about a third part of total Indonesia land area. Indonesia owns the southeastern two-thirds of the island of Borneo, with Brunei and Malaysia cover the rest of the area in the north.
Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan) encompasses four provinces: West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and East Kalimantan. The population of Kalimantan is approximately 9 million people, most live in settlements along its rivers. The two main population groups are the Dayak and the Malays. The Dayak, indigenous to Kalimantan, are forest dwellers and primarily Christian. The predominantly Muslim Malays live mostly in the coastal regions and the main cities of Kalimantan. Together, the two populations make up about 40% of the island's population.
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