Most areas of West Kalimantan is a low-lying land with an area of 146 807 km2, or 7.53 percent of the total Indonesian or 1.13 times the size of the island of Java. This region stretches straight from north to south along more than 600 km and about 850 km from West to East. Judging from the size of the territory, West Kalimantan is Indonesia's third largest province by area, after Papua (421,891 km2) and Central Kalimantan (152,600 km2). The largest regency is Ketapang (31 241 km2 or 24.39 percent) followed by Kapuas Hulu (29,842 km2 or 20.33 percent), and Sintang (21,635 km2 or 14.74 percent), while the rest spread over the nine other regencies.