Sukadana

Also known as Suka Dana, Sukadana District

Sukadana (; ) is a town and district (kecamatan) which serves as the regency seat of North Kayong Regency (Kabupaten Kayong Utara), on the island of Borneo. In mid 2025 it had 33,145 inhabitants. North Kayong is one of the regencies (kabupaten)of West Kalimantan province in Indonesia. The nearest airport is Rahadi Osman Airport which located at Ketapang Regency.

Wikidata facts

Instance of: kecamatan
Country: Indonesia
Located in: Ketapang
Time zone: Indonesia Western Standard Time
Image: Dragon dance in Sukadana, Indonesia.jpg

Show 5 more facts

different from: Sukadana
topic's main category: Category:Sukadana, North Kayong
Commons category: Sukadana
Statistics Indonesia area code: 6111020
name: Sukadana

Sources (3)

via Wikidata · CC0

~3 min read

Encyclopedic overview

9 sections

Contents

History
Administrative division
Economy
Education
Health
Demographics
Transportation
Places
References

==History== Sukadana was once the capital of the Malay kingdom known as Tanjungpura. The name Sukadana comes from Sanskrit meaning 'a pleasant gift'. It was referred to by seventeenth and eighteenth-century European writers as Succadano or Succadana, noted for its port, and described as being "in the land of Candavangan" (i.e. Kendawangan). Succadano was also, confusingly, the name given to the Banjarmasin river, which flows south to meet the sea at Banjarmasin in southeastern Borneo, on the other side of the island.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sukadana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

On the map

2 mapped locations

Available in 9 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0