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Brunei
Brunei-Muara District

Bandar Seri Begawan

Bandar Seri Begawan is the capital and largest city of . It is officially a municipal area with an area of 100.36 square kilometres and an estimated population of 100,700 as of 2007.
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  • Type: City with 50,000 residents
  • Description: capital and largest city of Brunei
  • Also known as: “Bandar”, “Bandar Brunei”, “BSB”, and “Seri Begawan”
  • Historically known as: “Brunei”, “Brunei Town”, and “Bruni”
Photo: Kurun, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sultan Omar ‘Ali Saifuddien Mosque and Royal Regalia Museum.

Mosque
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The Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque or unofficially Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque, is a in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of . Omar Ali Saifuddien III, the 28th Sultan of Brunei, is credited with building the mosque, thus its name.

Museum
Photo: Hajotthu, CC BY 3.0.
The is a museum located in the heart of Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of . Originally built as a monument in 1965, the museum had a makeover and expansion in 1992 that combined constructivist and Melayu Islam Beraja architectural elements.

Hospital
stands as the country's primary healthcare institution. Located in , the hospital offers views of both the capital, Bandar Seri Begawan, and the .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kampong Ayer.

Village
Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kampung Ayer is a prominent traditional settlement in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of . It comprises neighbourhoods of traditional houses, schools and mosques built on stilts above the near the capital's city centre.

Bandar Seri Begawan

Latitude
4.8895° or 4° 53′ 22″ north
Longitude
114.9418° or 114° 56′ 30″ east
Population
50,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
IATA airport code
BWN
United Nations Location Code
BN BWN
Open location code
6PPPVWQR+RP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1699083598
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1820906
Wiki­data ID
Q9279
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Bandar Seri Begawan” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Afrikaans: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Albanian: “Bandar Seri Begauan”
  • Albanian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Amharic: “ባንዳር ሰሪ ቤጋዋን”
  • Arabic: “بندر سري بكاوان”
  • Armenian: “Բանդար Սերի Բեգավան”
  • Arpitan: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Asturian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Aymara: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bandar Seri Begavan”
  • Balinese: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Banjar: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Bashkir: “Бандар-Сери-Бегаван”
  • Basque: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Belarusian: “Бандар-Серы-Бегаван”
  • Belarusian: “Бандар-Сэры-Бэгаван”
  • Bengali: “বন্দর সেরি বেগাওয়ান”
  • Bengali: “বান্দার সেরি বেগাওয়ান”
  • Betawi: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Bosnian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Breton: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Bulgarian: “Бандар Сери Бегаван”
  • Burmese: “ဘန်ဒါဆရီဘဂါဝမ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Cebuano: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Cebuano: “Dakbayang Śrī Bhagavān”
  • Central Bikol: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەندەر سێری بێگاوان”
  • Chechen: “Бандар-Сери-Бегаван”
  • Chinese: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Chinese: “斯里巴加湾”
  • Chinese: “斯里巴加湾市”
  • Chinese: “斯里巴加灣”
  • Chinese: “斯里巴加灣市”
  • Chinese: “斯里巴加萬港”
  • Chinese: “斯里巴卡旺市”
  • Croatian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Czech: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Danish: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Dutch: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Dutch: “Brunei Town”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بندر سرى بكاوان”
  • Erzya: “Бандар-Сери-Бегаван”
  • Esperanto: “Bandar-Seri-Begavano”
  • Esperanto: “BSB”
  • Estonian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Finnish: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • French: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Galician: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Georgian: “ბანდარ-სერი-ბეგავანი”
  • German: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Greek: “Μπαντάρ Σερί Μπεγκαβάν”
  • Gujarati: “બંદર સેરી બેગવન”
  • Haitian: “Banda Seri”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Hausa: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Hebrew: “בנדר סרי בגוואן”
  • Hindi: “बंदर सेरी बेगवान”
  • Hindi: “बंदर सेरी बेगावान”
  • Hungarian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Iban: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Icelandic: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Ido: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Iloko: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Indonesian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Interlingue: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Irish: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Italian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Japanese: “BSB”
  • Japanese: “バンダル・スリ・ブガワン”
  • Japanese: “バンダルスリブガワン”
  • Kabyle: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Kannada: “ಬಂದರ್ ಸೆರಿ ಬಗೆವನ್”
  • Kazakh: “Бандар-Сери-Бегаван”
  • Khmer: “បង់ដា⁠សេរីបេកាវ៉ាន់”
  • Khmer: “បានដាស៊េរី បេហ្គាវ៉ាន់”
  • Kinaray-A: “Dakbanwa Śrī Bhagavān”
  • Kirghiz: “Бандар-Сери-Бегаван”
  • Komering: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Kongo: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Korean: “반다르스리브가완”
  • Lao: “ບັນດາເຊີລີເບີກາວັນ”
  • Latin: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Latvian: “Bandarseribegavana”
  • Ligurian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Lithuanian: “Bandar Seri Begavanas”
  • Livvi: “Bandar-Seri-Begavan”
  • Lombard: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Macedonian: “Бандар Сери Бегаван”
  • Maithili: “बन्दर सेरी बेगावान”
  • Malagasy: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Malay: “Bandar Brunei”
  • Malay: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Malay: “Bandar”
  • Malay: “BSB”
  • Malay: “باندر سري بݢاون”
  • Malayalam: “ബന്ദർ സെരി ബെഗവൻ”
  • Marathi: “बंदर स्री बगवान”
  • Mazanderani: “بندر سری بگاوان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Minangkabau: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Mingrelian: “ბანდარ-სერი-ბეგავანი”
  • Mongolian: “Бандар Сери Бегаван”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بندر سيري باڭاوان”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بندر سيري بيݣاوان”
  • Nauru: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Nepali: “बन्दर सेरी बेगवान”
  • Nepali: “बन्दर सेरी बेगावान”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Northern Luri: “سری بگاوان”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brunei by”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brunei Town”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Norwegian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Novial: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Ossetian: “Бандар-Сери-Бегаван”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੰਦਰ ਸੇਰੀ ਬੇਗਵਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Persian: “بندر سری بگاوان”
  • Piemontese: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Polish: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Portuguese: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Pushto: “سری بګاوان بندر”
  • Romanian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Russian: “Бандар-Сери-Бегаван”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱚᱱᱫᱚᱨ ᱥᱮᱨᱤ ᱵᱮᱜᱟᱣᱟᱱ”
  • Sardinian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Scots: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Serbian: “Бандар Сери Бегаван”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Shona: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Sindhi: “بندر سري بيگاوان”
  • Sinhala: “බන්ඩර් සෙරී බෙගවන්”
  • Slovak: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Slovenian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Spanish: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Swahili: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Swedish: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Tagalog: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod Śrī Bhagavān”
  • Tajik: “Бандар-Сери-Бегаван”
  • Talysh: “Bəndər Səri Begavan”
  • Talysh: “Bəndər Səri Beqavan”
  • Tamil: “பண்டர் செரி பெகாவான்”
  • Tamil: “பண்டார் செரி பெகாவான்”
  • Tamil: “பந்தர் சேரி பெகாவான்”
  • Tatar: “Бандар-Сери-Бегаван”
  • Tatar: “Бәндәр-Сери-Бегаван”
  • Telugu: “బండర్ సేరి బెగవాన్”
  • Thai: “บันดาร์เซอรีเบอกาวัน”
  • Thai: “บันดาร์เสรีเบกาวัน”
  • Tibetan: “སི་རི་པེ་ཀ་མཚོ་ཁུགས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར།”
  • Tibetan: “སི་རི་པེ་ཀ་མཚོ་ཁུགས་གྲོང་ཁྱེར​།”
  • Turkish: “Bandar Seri Begavan”
  • Udmurt: “Бандар-Сери-Бегаван”
  • Uighur: “باندار سەرى بەگاۋان”
  • Ukrainian: “Бандар Сері Беґаван”
  • Ukrainian: “Бандар-Сері-Бегаван”
  • Urdu: “بندر سری بگاوان”
  • Uzbek: “Bandar-Seri-Begavan”
  • Venetian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Veps: “Bandar Seri Begavan”
  • Vietnamese: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Volapük: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Võro: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Welsh: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Western Frisian: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Western Frisian: “Bandar Sery Begawan”
  • Western Panjabi: “بندر سری بیگوان”
  • Wu Chinese: “斯里巴加湾市”
  • Yoruba: “Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • Yue Chinese: “斯里巴加灣”
  • Zulu: “i-Bandar Seri Begawan”
  • “Bandar Seri Begawan”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Bandar Seri Begawan”. Photo: sam garza, CC BY 2.0.