Sukadana

Sukadana (; ) is a town and district (kecamatan) which serves as the regency seat of North Kayong Regency (Kabupaten Kayong Utara), on the island of Borneo. In mid 2025 it had 33,145 inhabitants. North Kayong is one of the regencies (kabupaten)of West Kalimantan province in Indonesia. The nearest airport is Rahadi Osman Airport which located at Ketapang Regency.

==History== Sukadana was once the capital of the Malay kingdom known as Tanjungpura. The name Sukadana comes from Sanskrit meaning 'a pleasant gift'. It was referred to by seventeenth and eighteenth-century European writers as Succadano or Succadana, noted for its port, and described as being "in the land of Candavangan" (i.e. Kendawangan). Succadano was also, confusingly, the name given to the Banjarmasin river, which flows south to meet the sea at Banjarmasin in southeastern Borneo, on the other side of the island.