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Penajam

District in East Kalimantan, Indonesia

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 26, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Penajam, is an administrative district (kecamatan) of East Kalimantan province of Indonesia; it includes the administrative capital of Penajam North Paser Regency on Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. As at mid 2025, it was inhabited by 100,053 people, and currently has a total land area of 1,207.37 km2. Its district seat is located at the village of Nipah-Nipah.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Penajam” as district in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Penajam, District and East.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Penajam, District and East providing the first useful test.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Penajam”, the useful work is to connect “district in East Kalimantan, Indonesia” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 26, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2025.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Penajam”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Penajam primary sources, Penajam archive and Penajam research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Penajam”?
  2. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Penajam” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.