Bengalon is an administrative district (kecamatan) within East Kutai Regency, in East Kalimantan Province of Indonesia. According to the 2010 census, Bengalon was inhabited by 22,698 people, which rose to 45,314 at the 2020 Census, but fell back to 44,397 in mid 2024 according to the official estimates.
Bengalon was formed on 16 July 1999 from the northern parts of Sangatta. It is the location of the Bengalon coal mine. The administrative centre is in the village of Sepaso.
Cape Mangkalihat, also known as Cape Sangkulirang, is a cape in eastern Borneo. It is located in the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan, in the regencies of Berau (in the north) and East Kutai (in the south).
The cape, as part of the Sangkulirang-Mangkalihat Karst, is notable for its rock art, dating to between 35,000 and 40,000 years ago.
Kutai is a Malayic language spoken by 300,000 to 500,000 people. It is the native language of the Kutai people, the indigenous ethnic group which lives along the Mahakam River in Borneo, especially in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. They are the principal population in the regencies of West Kutai, Kutai Kartanegara, and East Kutai within East Kalimantan province.
Kutai is part of the local Bornean Malayic languages and is closely related to but distinct from the Banjar language in South Kalimantan, Berau, also spoken in North Kalimantan and to some extent Brunei-Kedayan Malay as well. Kutai forms a dialect continuum between the two varieties and all three share similar phonology and vocabulary with each other.