Tarakan [island] - Tarakan

Japanese: タラカン[島] - タラカン
Tarakan [island] - Tarakan
A small island off the northeast coast of Indonesia's Kalimantan (Borneo). Rich oil fields were discovered in this area at the end of the 19th century, and large-scale mining was carried out by the Dutch. During World War II, it was an oil supply base for the Japanese military. There is an airport. The capital is Tarakan. 384 km 2 .

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Japanese:
インドネシア領カリマンタン（ボルネオ島）北東沿岸にある小島。19世紀末にこの地域で豊富な油田が発見され，オランダによって大規模な採掘が行われ，第２次大戦中は日本軍の石油補給地であった。空港がある。主都タラカン。384km2。

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