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Sembakung River Sungai Sembakung, Sungai Sembakun, Simbakung, Soengai Sembakoeng
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Location
Country	Malaysian and Indonesia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Sabah, North Kalimantan
Length	322 km (200 mi)
Basin size	16,320 km (6,300 sq mi)

The Sembakung River is a river in Borneo that flows from Sabah, Malaysia to North Kalimantan, Indonesia, about 1600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.

Geography

The 322 kilometers long river flows in the northeastern area of Borneo island with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is August, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is January, at 22 °C. The average annual rainfall is 4020 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 393 mm rainfall, and the driest is June, with 251 mm rainfall.

See also

• List of drainage basins of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Kalimantan

References

1. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
2. Sungai Sembakung at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 17 January 2012; Database dump downloaded 27 November 2015
3. Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L; McMahon, T A (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007.
4. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
5. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

3°43′37″N 117°48′17″E / 3.72698°N 117.8046°E / 3.72698; 117.8046

• Rivers of North Kalimantan
• Sembakung basin