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Banjarmasin is the capital of Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. The city has 572,300 inhabitants (2004).
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Banjarmasin was founded in 1526 and in 1606 a Dutch trading post established in the city for the trade in pepper. Later it became part of the Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies, where it was the capital of the Dutch East Indies part of Borneo.