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Singkawang or Sakawokng in Dayak Salako or San-Khew-Jong (Hakka: 山口洋) , is a city located in the province of West Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo in Indonesia. It is located at about 145 km north of Pontianak, the provincial capital, and is surrounded by the Pasi, Poteng, and Sakkok mountains. Singkawang is derived from the Salako languange, which refers to a very wide area of swamps (all swamps). In addition, the ancestors of the Hakka Chinese community in Sakawokng also named this area in Hakka as "San-Khew-Jong" (Mount-Mouth-Sea), which means "A city located at the foot of a mountain near the sea and has a river that flows up to the mouth of the river (estuary)." The city covers an area of 504 km2 and had a population of 186,462 at the 2010 Census, 207,144 at the 2015 Intermediate Census and 235,064 at the 2020 Census.