South Kalimantan | Kalimantan Selatan

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Motto: Waja Sampai Ka Puting (Banjarese)
(Spirit as strong as steel, from the start until the end)



Location of South Kalimantan in Indonesia
Coordinates: 2°30′S 115°30′E
Country Indonesia
CapitalBanjarmasin
Government
- GovernorDrs. H. Rudi Arifin
Area
- Total36,985 km2 (14,280 sq mi)
Population (2010)[1]
- Total3,626,119
- Density98/km2 (253.9/sq mi)
Demographics
- Ethnic groupsBanjarese (76%), Javanese (13%),
Bugis (12%) [2]
- ReligionIslam (89%), Christianity (1.2%), Buddhism (0.42%), Hinduism (0.11%)
- LanguagesIndonesian (official), Banjarese
Time zoneWITA (UTC+8)
Websitehttp://www.kalselprov.go.id



Alabio Duck Monument in Amuntai Town.

South Kalimantan/South Borneo (Indonesian: Kalimantan Selatan often abbreviated to Kalsel) is a province of Indonesia. It is one of four Indonesian provinces in the Indonesian part of Borneo. The provincial capital is Banjarmasin. The province boundaries are Makassar Strait in the east, Central Kalimantan in the west and north, the Java Sea in the south and a small part of East Kalimantan in the north.

The province had a population of 3.6 million in 2010.[1] In 2008 the number of visitors to the province was 339,000 of which 21,000 were international visitors, mostly from China, Philippines and India.