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Tarakan is a city on an island of the same name in East Kalimantan and the largest city in the province of North Kalimantan. Tarakan is an island and the largest city in the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan. The island city is located in northern Borneo, midway along the coast of the province. The city boundaries are co-extensive with the island (including a couple of small islands off the coast of the Tarakan Barat District). Once a major oil-producing region during the colonial period, Tarakan had great strategic importance during the Pacific War and was among the first Japanese targets early in the conflict. It is the sole city within the newly established (in 2012) Indonesian province of North Kalimantan. According to Statistics Indonesia, the city had a population of 193,370 in the 2010 Census and 242,786 inhabitants in the 2020 Census.