Kotawaringin

Kotawaringin, or Kota Waringin was a sultanate on the south coast of Borneo.It covered an area in what is now the western part of the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan.It then had a brief existence as an autonomous "native state" in the United States of Indonesia between 1949 and 1950, before being formally created as a separate Kotawaringin Regency within what was then the Province of South Kalimantan (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).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".[1] 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.
Flag of the Kingdom of Kotawaringin.
Section of a map of Borneo showing Kotawaringin in a 1909 school atlas
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