Brunei

The Sultanate of Brunei is a small but — thanks to natural gas and petroleum resources — very rich country on the island of in . Although Brunei is not on most travellers' radar, it is a country of tranquil mosques, pristine jungles, and friendly inhabitants.
gov.bn
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: kulimpapat147, CC BY 2.0.

Essential Destinations

Top destinations: Bandar Seri Begawan and Kuala Belait.

Photo: sam garza, CC BY 2.0.
is the capital and largest city of Brunei.

Photo: IQRemix, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is the second largest city in Brunei.

is the administrative centre of the Temburong District of Brunei.

Destinations to Discover

Places to explore: Tutong and Muara.

Town or simply known as …

Photo: Zulfadli51, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, officially known as Town, is a port town…

Brunei

  • Type: Country with 409,000 residents
  • Description: sovereign country and sultanate on the island of Borneo in south-east Asia, member of the Commonwealth of Nations
  • Also known as: “Baruné”, “Berunai”, “bn”, “BN”, “BRN”, “BRU”, “Brunei Darussalaam”, “Brunei Darussalaam riikk”, “Brunei Darussalaam valdia”, “Brunei Darussalam”, “Brunei Darussalam بروني دارالسلام”, “Brunei Darussalama stáhta”, “Brunei Darussalami Riik”, “Brunei Darussalamin valtio”, “Brunei Szultanátus”, “Brunejsko-darussalamský štát”, “Buné”, “Estado de Brunéi, Morada de la Paz”, “Estado de Bruney Darussalam”, “Lando Brunejo, la Pacejo”, “le Brunei Darussalam”, “Nagara Brunei Darussalam”, “Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace”, “Negara Brunei Darussalam”, “Negara Brunei Darussalam نݢارا بروني دارالسلام”, “Negeri Brunei”, “Nhà nước Brunei Darussalam”, “Staat Brunei Darussalam”, “State of Brunei”, “Stato del Brunei”, “Sultanate of Brunei”, “Бруней-Даруссалам кърал”, “Государство Бруней-Даруссалам”, “Ислямски султанат Бруней”, “ბრუნეი დარუსალამი”, “ברוניי דארוסלאם”, “סולטנות ברוניי”, “اتحاد بروناي”, “بروناي دار السلام”, “بروني دارالسلام”, “بورونئی”, “نڬارا بروني”, “نڬارا بروني دارالسلام”, “ब्रुनेई दारुस्सलाम”, “ਬਰੁਨੇਈ”, “බෲනයි”, “เนอการาบรูไนดารุสซาลาม”, “รัฐบรูไนดารุสซาลาม”, “ᨅᨘᨊᨙ”, “ᨅᨛᨑᨘᨊᨕᨗ”, “ប្រជាជាតិប៊្រុយណេ ទ្វារនៃសន្តិភាព”, “ប្រទេសប៊្រុយណេ”, “ប៊្រុយណេដារូសាឡឹម”, “ブルネイ・ダルサラーム国”, “文莱和平之国”, “文莱达鲁萨兰国”, “文萊”, “文萊和平之國”, “文萊達魯薩蘭國”, “汶莱和平之国”, “汶莱达鲁萨兰国”, “汶萊和平之國”, and “汶萊達魯薩蘭國”
  • Languages: Malay and English
  • Neighbors:
  • Categories: sovereign state, sultanate, country sometimes considered transcontinental, and locality
  • Location: ,
  • View on Open­Street­Map
Latitude of center
4.486° or 4° 29′ 10″ north
Longitude of center
114.615° or 114° 36′ 54″ east
Population
409,000
Area
5,770 km² (2,228 miles²)
Elevation
95 metres (312 feet)
Capital
Currency
Dollar (BND)
Phone code
673
Internet domain
.bn
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1694010854
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
1820814
Wiki­data ID
Q921
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover this place from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Brunei” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Брунеи”
  • Achinese: “Brunai”
  • Adyghe: “Бруней”
  • Afrikaans: “Broenei”
  • Akan: “Brunae”
  • Albanian: “Brunei”
  • Albanian: “Brunej”
  • Amharic: “ብሩኒ”
  • Amharic: “ብሩናይ”
  • Amis: “Brunei”
  • Angika: “ब्रूनेई”
  • Arabic: “بروناي”
  • Arabic: “بروني”
  • Aragonese: “Brunei”
  • Armenian: “Բրունեյ”
  • Arpitan: “Brunèy”
  • Arpitan: “Bruneyi”
  • Assamese: “ব্ৰুণেই”
  • Assamese: “ব্ৰুনেই”
  • Asturian: “Brunéi”
  • Atayal: “Brunei”
  • Awadhi: “ब्रुनाई”
  • Aymara: “Bruniy”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bruney”
  • Balinese: “Brunéi Darussalam”
  • Balinese: “Brunei”
  • Bambara: “Burinɛyi”
  • Banjar: “Brunai”
  • Bashkir: “Бруней”
  • Basque: “Brunei”
  • Batak Toba: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Batak Toba: “Brunei”
  • Bavarian: “Brunei”
  • Belarusian: “Бруней-Дарусалам”
  • Belarusian: “Бруней”
  • Belarusian: “Брунэй”
  • Bengali: “ব্রুনাই”
  • Bengali: “ব্রুনেই”
  • Betawi: “Bruné Darusalam”
  • Betawi: “Bruné”
  • Bhojpuri: “ब्रुनेई”
  • Bishnupriya: “ব্রুনাই”
  • Bislama: “Brunae”
  • Bosnian: “Brunej”
  • Brahui: “Brunáí”
  • Breton: “Brunei”
  • Buginese: “ᨅᨑᨘᨊᨙ”
  • Bulgarian: “Бруней Дарусалам”
  • Bulgarian: “Бруней Даруссалам”
  • Bulgarian: “Бруней”
  • Burmese: “ဘရူနိုင်း”
  • Burmese: “ဘရူနိုင်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Brunei”
  • Cebuano: “Brunei”
  • Cebuano: “Bruney”
  • Central Bikol: “Brunei”
  • Central Kanuri: “Brunei”
  • Central Kurdish: “بروونای”
  • Chavacano: “Brunei”
  • Chechen: “Бруней-Даруссалам”
  • Chechen: “Бруней”
  • Cherokee: “ᏊᎾᎢ”
  • Chinese: “Wénlái”
  • Chinese: “文莱 / 汶萊”
  • Chinese: “文莱”
  • Chinese: “汶莱”
  • Chinese: “汶萊”
  • Chuvash: “Бруней”
  • Cornish: “Brunei”
  • Cornish: “Bruney”
  • Corsican: “Brunei”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Bruney”
  • Croatian: “Brunej Darussalam”
  • Croatian: “Brunej”
  • Czech: “Brunej Darussalam”
  • Czech: “Brunej”
  • Dagbani: “Brunei”
  • Danish: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Danish: “Brunei”
  • Dhivehi: “ބުރުނައީ”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bruney”
  • Dotyali: “ब्रुनाई”
  • Dutch: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Dutch: “Brunei”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷྲུ་ནའི།”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷྲུ་ནའི”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бруней”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بروناى”
  • Erzya: “Бруней Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Brunejo”
  • Estonian: “Brunei”
  • Ewe: “Brunei nutome”
  • Faroese: “Brunei”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Brunei”
  • Finnish: “Brunei”
  • French: “Brunéi Darussalam”
  • French: “Brunei”
  • Fulah: “Burnaay”
  • Gagauz: “Bruney”
  • Galician: “Brunei”
  • Ganda: “Burunayi”
  • Georgian: “ბრუნეი”
  • German: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • German: “Brunei”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Brunei”
  • Gilaki: “برۊنئي”
  • Goan Konkani: “Brunei”
  • Goan Konkani: “ब्रुनेई”
  • Goan Konkani: “ब्रूनेई”
  • Gorontalo: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Gorontalo: “Brunei”
  • Greek: “Μπρουνέι Νταρουσαλάμ”
  • Greek: “Μπρουνέι”
  • Guarani: “Mburunéi”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Brounéy”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રુનેઇ”
  • Gujarati: “બ્રુનેઈ”
  • Haitian: “Brouney”
  • Haitian: “Bwouneyi”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Vùn-lòi”
  • Hausa: “Brunei”
  • Hausa: “Burune”
  • Hawaiian: “Brunei”
  • Hebrew: “ברוניי דארוסאלאם”
  • Hebrew: “ברוניי”
  • Hindi: “ब्रुनेई”
  • Hindi: “ब्रूनइ”
  • Hindi: “ब्रूनेई”
  • Hungarian: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Hungarian: “Brunei”
  • Iban: “Brunei”
  • Icelandic: “Brúnei”
  • Ido: “Brunei”
  • Igbo: “Brunei”
  • Iloko: “Brunei”
  • Inari Sami: “Brunei”
  • Indonesian: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Indonesian: “Brunei”
  • Interlingua: “Brunei”
  • Interlingue: “Brunei”
  • Inupiaq: “Brunei”
  • Inupiaq: “Purunai”
  • Irish: “Brúiné”
  • Italian: “Brunei”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Brunai”
  • Japanese: “ブルネイ”
  • Javanese: “Brunéi Darussalam”
  • Javanese: “Brunei”
  • Javanese: “Brunéi”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Brunei”
  • Kabyle: “Brunei”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Brunei”
  • Kalaallisut: “Brunei”
  • Kalmyk: “Брунейгин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರುನೈ”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೂನಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bruney”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Бруней”
  • Kashmiri: “بُرنٔے”
  • Kashmiri: “برٛونى”
  • Kashubian: “Brunei”
  • Kashubian: “Brunejô”
  • Kazakh: “Бруней”
  • Khmer: “ប្រ៊ុយណេ”
  • Khmer: “ប៊្រុយណេ”
  • Khmer: “ព្រុយណេ”
  • Kikuyu: “Brunei”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Buruneyi”
  • Kirghiz: “Бруней”
  • Kölsch: “Brunei”
  • Komering: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Komering: “Bruney Darussalam”
  • Komi: “Бруней”
  • Kongo: “Brunei”
  • Korean: “브루나이”
  • Korean: “브루네이 다루쌀람”
  • Kurdish: “Brûney”
  • Kurdish: “بروونای”
  • Ladin: “Brunei”
  • Ladino: “Brunei”
  • Lao: “ບຣູໄນ”
  • Lao: “ບູຮໄນ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດບຣູໄນ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດບູໄນ”
  • Latin: “Bruneium”
  • Latvian: “Bruneja”
  • Ligurian: “Brunei”
  • Limburgan: “Broenai”
  • Limburgan: “Brunei”
  • Lingala: “Brineyi”
  • Lingala: “Brunei”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Brune”
  • Literary Chinese: “婆利”
  • Literary Chinese: “汶萊”
  • Lithuanian: “Brunėjaus Darusalamas”
  • Lithuanian: “Brunėjus”
  • Livvi: “Brunei”
  • Lombard: “Brunei”
  • Low German: “Brunei”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Brunei”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Brineyi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Brunei”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Brunei”
  • Macedonian: “Брунеи”
  • Macedonian: “Брунеј”
  • Madurese: “Brunei”
  • Magahi: “ब्रुनेई”
  • Maithili: “ब्रुनाई”
  • Maithili: “ब्रुनेई”
  • Malagasy: “Boroney”
  • Malagasy: “Broney”
  • Malagasy: “Brunei”
  • Malay: “Brunei”
  • Malay: “بروني”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രൂണൈ”
  • Maltese: “Brunei”
  • Maltese: “Brunej”
  • Maltese: “il-Brunei”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕ꯭ꯔꯨꯅꯩ”
  • Manx: “Brunei”
  • Maori: “Poronai”
  • Marathi: “ब्रुनेई”
  • Mazanderani: “برونئی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ùng-lài”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bûn-lâi”
  • Minangkabau: “Brunei”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრუნეი”
  • Mirandese: “Brunei”
  • Moksha: “Брунэй”
  • Mongolian: “Бруней”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بروناي”
  • Nauru: “Brunei”
  • Navajo: “Tó Biníhííyį́góó Yílį́ Hahoodzo”
  • Neapolitan: “Brunei”
  • Nepali: “ब्रुनाइ”
  • Nepali: “ब्रुनाई”
  • Nepali: “ब्रुनेई”
  • Newari: “ब्रुनाइ”
  • Nias: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • North Ndebele: “Brunei”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bruunei”
  • Northern Luri: “برونئی”
  • Northern Sami: “Brunei”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brunei”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brunei”
  • Norwegian: “Brunei”
  • Novial: “Brunei”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Brunei”
  • Nyanja: “Brunei”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Brunei”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Brunei”
  • Oriya: “ବୃନେଇ”
  • Oriya: “ବ୍ରୁନେଇ”
  • Oromo: “Birunaay”
  • Oromo: “Brunei”
  • Ossetian: “Бруней”
  • Pali: “ब्रूनै”
  • Pampanga: “Brunei”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਰੂਨਾਈ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਰੂਨੇਈ”
  • Papiamento: “Brunei”
  • Persian: “برونئی”
  • Picard: “Brunei”
  • Piemontese: “Brunei”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Bruunii”
  • Polish: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Polish: “Brunei”
  • Pontic: “Μπρουνέιν”
  • Portuguese: “Brunei”
  • Pushto: “برونائي”
  • Pushto: “برونای”
  • Quechua: “Brunéi”
  • Quechua: “Bruniy”
  • Quechua: “Purunay”
  • Rakhine: “ဘရူနိုင်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Romanian: “Brunei”
  • Romansh: “Brunei”
  • Rundi: “Buruneyi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бруней”
  • Russia Buriat: “Брүнэй”
  • Russian: “Бруней Даруссалам”
  • Russian: “Бруней-Даруссалам”
  • Russian: “Бруней”
  • Rusyn: “Бруней”
  • Sakizaya: “Brunei”
  • Samoan: “Brunei”
  • Samoan: “Purunai”
  • Samogitian: “Bruniejos”
  • Sango: “Brunêi”
  • Sanskrit: “ब्रूनै”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱨᱩᱱᱮᱭ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱽᱨᱩᱱᱟᱭ”
  • Sardinian: “Brunei”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Brunei”
  • Scots: “Brunei”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Brùnaigh”
  • Serbian: “Brunej”
  • Serbian: “Брунеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brunej”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းပရူႇၼၢႆး”
  • Shona: “Bhurunei”
  • Shona: “Brunei”
  • Shona: “Burunei”
  • Sicilian: “Brunei”
  • Silesian: “Brunei”
  • Sindhi: “برونئي”
  • Sindhi: “برونائي”
  • Sinhala: “බෲනායි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Brunei”
  • Slovak: “Brunej”
  • Slovenian: “Brunej”
  • Somali: “Barunay”
  • Somali: “Buruneey”
  • Somali: “Buruneeya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برونئی”
  • Spanish: “Brunéi”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴱⵔⵓⵏⴰⵢ”
  • Sundanese: “Brunéi”
  • Swahili: “Brunei”
  • Swati: “IBhruneyi”
  • Swedish: “Brunei”
  • Swiss German: “Brunei”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛ꠆ꠞꠥꠘꠣꠁ”
  • Tachelhit: “Brunay Darussalam”
  • Tachelhit: “Brunay”
  • Tagalog: “Brunay”
  • Tagalog: “Brunei”
  • Tajik: “Бруней”
  • Talysh: “Brunej”
  • Talysh: “Bruney Darussalam”
  • Tamil: “புருனே”
  • Tamil: “புரூணை”
  • Tamil: “புரூனேய்”
  • Taroko: “Brunai Darussalam”
  • Taroko: “Brunei”
  • Tatar: “Бруней”
  • Telugu: “బ్రునై”
  • Telugu: “బ్రూనే”
  • Telugu: “బ్రూనై”
  • Tetum: “Brunei”
  • Thai: “บรูไน”
  • Thai: “ประเทศบรูไน”
  • Thai: “ประเทศบรูไนดารุสซาลาม”
  • Tibetan: “བྷི་རུ་ནི།”
  • Tibetan: “བུ་རུ་ནེ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ብሩነይ”
  • Tigrinya: “ብሩኒ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Brunai”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pulunei”
  • Tsonga: “Brunei”
  • Tumbuka: “BruBrunei Sultanlığınei”
  • Tumbuka: “Brunei”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “بروناي”
  • Turkish: “Brunei”
  • Turkish: “Bruney”
  • Turkmen: “Bruneý”
  • Udmurt: “Бруней”
  • Uighur: “برۇنېي”
  • Uighur: “بىرۇنېي”
  • Ukrainian: “Бруней-Даруссалам”
  • Ukrainian: “Бруней”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Brunei”
  • Urdu: “برونئی”
  • Urdu: “برونائی دار السلام”
  • Urdu: “برونائی”
  • Uzbek: “Bruney”
  • Venetian: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Venetian: “Brunei”
  • Veps: “Brunei”
  • Vietnamese: “Bru-nây”
  • Vietnamese: “Brunei”
  • Vlax Romani: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Volapük: “Brunän”
  • Võro: “Brunei”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Brunei”
  • Welsh: “Brunei”
  • Welsh: “Brwnei”
  • Western Armenian: “Պրունէյ”
  • Western Balochi: “برونی”
  • Western Frisian: “Brunei”
  • Western Frisian: “Brûnei”
  • Western Panjabi: “برونائی”
  • Wolof: “Burney”
  • Wu Chinese: “文莱”
  • Yakut: “Бруней”
  • Yiddish: “ברוניי”
  • Yoruba: “Brunei”
  • Yoruba: “Búrúnẹ́lì”
  • Yoruba: “Orílẹ́ède Búrúnẹ́lì”
  • Yue Chinese: “汶萊”
  • Zeeuws: “Brunei”
  • Zhuang: “Vwnzlaiz”
  • Zulu: “i-Brunei”
  • “Brunei”
  • “ma Punali Talusalan”
  • “ma Pune”
  • “ब्रुनेई”

Southeast Asia: Must-Visit Destinations

Worth a closer look: Philippines and Indonesia.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.