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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.
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is the capital and largest city of Brunei. 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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is the second largest city in Brunei. lies along the Belait River near the South China Sea, west of Seria. is a river port at the center of an oil field that includes offshore wells.

is the administrative centre of the Temburong District of Brunei. The quiet small town is relatively isolated as Temburong is separated from the main part of the country by 's district.

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Town or simply known as , is a municipality town in Mukim Pekan , , Brunei. It is located about 40 kilometres from the country's capital . It is the administrative centre of District.

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, officially known as Town, is a port town located in the , approximately 28 kilometres from the capital, .

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: “bn”, “BRN”, “BRU”, “Brunei Darussalam”, “Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace”, “Negara Brunei Darussalam”, “Negeri Brunei”, “State of Brunei”, and “Sultanate of Brunei”
  • Languages: Malay and English
  • Neighbors:
  • Categories: sovereign state, sultanate, and locality
  • Location: ,
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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
.bn
Internet domain
673
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1694010854
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­country
Geo­Names ID
1820814
Wiki­data ID
Q921
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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: “bn”
  • Arabic: “BRN”
  • Arabic: “BRU”
  • Arabic: “اتحاد بروناي”
  • Arabic: “بروناي دار السلام”
  • Arabic: “بروناي”
  • Arabic: “بروني”
  • Aragonese: “Brunei”
  • Armenian: “Բրունեյ”
  • Arpitan: “Brunèy”
  • Arpitan: “Bruneyi”
  • Assamese: “ব্ৰুণেই”
  • Assamese: “ব্ৰুনেই”
  • Asturian: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Asturian: “Brunéi”
  • Atayal: “Brunei”
  • Awadhi: “ब्रुनाई”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bruney”
  • Balinese: “Brunéi Darussalam”
  • Balinese: “Brunei”
  • Bambara: “Burinɛyi”
  • Banjar: “Brunai”
  • Bashkir: “Бруней”
  • Basque: “Brunei”
  • 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: “Baruné”
  • Buginese: “Berunai”
  • Buginese: “bn”
  • Buginese: “BRN”
  • Buginese: “BRU”
  • Buginese: “Buné”
  • Buginese: “ᨅᨑᨘᨊᨙ”
  • Buginese: “ᨅᨘᨊᨙ”
  • Buginese: “ᨅᨛᨑᨘᨊᨕᨗ”
  • Bulgarian: “Бруней Дарусалам”
  • Bulgarian: “Бруней Даруссалам”
  • Bulgarian: “Бруней”
  • Bulgarian: “Ислямски султанат Бруней”
  • Burmese: “ဘရူနိုင်း”
  • Burmese: “ဘရူနိုင်းနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • 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: “Bûn-lâi”
  • Chinese: “Wénlái”
  • Chinese: “文莱 / 汶萊”
  • Chinese: “文莱”
  • Chinese: “文莱和平之国”
  • Chinese: “文莱达鲁萨兰国”
  • Chinese: “文萊”
  • Chinese: “文萊和平之國”
  • Chinese: “文萊達魯薩蘭國”
  • Chinese: “汶莱”
  • Chinese: “汶莱和平之国”
  • Chinese: “汶莱达鲁萨兰国”
  • Chinese: “汶萊”
  • Chinese: “汶萊和平之國”
  • Chinese: “汶萊達魯薩蘭國”
  • 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: “BN”
  • Dutch: “BRN”
  • Dutch: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Dutch: “Brunei”
  • Dutch: “Staat Brunei Darussalam”
  • Dzongkha: “བྷྲུ་ནའི”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бруней”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بروناى”
  • Erzya: “Бруней Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Brunejo”
  • Esperanto: “Lando Brunejo, la Pacejo”
  • Estonian: “Brunei Darussalami Riik”
  • Estonian: “Brunei”
  • Ewe: “Brunei nutome”
  • Faroese: “Brunei”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Brunei”
  • Finnish: “Brunei Darussalamin valtio”
  • Finnish: “Brunei”
  • French: “BN”
  • French: “Brunéi Darussalam”
  • French: “Brunei”
  • French: “Brunéi”
  • French: “le Brunei Darussalam”
  • Fulah: “Burnaay”
  • Gagauz: “Bruney”
  • Galician: “Brunei”
  • Ganda: “Burunayi”
  • Georgian: “ბრუნეი”
  • German: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • German: “Brunei”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Brunei”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Negara Brunei Darussalam”
  • Gilaki: “برۊنئي”
  • Goan Konkani: “Brunei”
  • Goan Konkani: “ब्रुनेई”
  • 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 דארוסלאם”
  • Hebrew: “ברוניי”
  • Hebrew: “סולטנות ברוניי”
  • Hindi: “ब्रुनेई”
  • Hindi: “ब्रूनइ”
  • Hindi: “ब्रूनेई”
  • Hungarian: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Hungarian: “Brunei Szultanátus”
  • Hungarian: “Brunei”
  • Hungarian: “Negara Brunei Darussalam”
  • 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 Darussalam”
  • Italian: “Brunei”
  • Italian: “Nagara Brunei Darussalam”
  • Italian: “Stato del Brunei”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Brunai”
  • Japanese: “ブルネイ・ダルサラーム国”
  • Japanese: “ブルネイ”
  • Javanese: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Javanese: “Brunéi Darussalam”
  • Javanese: “Brunéi”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Brunei”
  • Kabyle: “Brunei”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Brunei”
  • Kalaallisut: “Brunei”
  • Kalmyk: “Брунейгин Нутг”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರುನೈ”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ರೂನಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bruney”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Бруней-Даруссалам кърал”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Бруней-Даруссалам”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Бруней”
  • Kashmiri: “بُرنٔے”
  • Kashmiri: “برٛونى”
  • Kashubian: “Brunei”
  • 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”
  • 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”
  • Maithili: “ब्रुनाई”
  • Maithili: “ब्रुनेई”
  • Malagasy: “Boroney”
  • Malagasy: “Broney”
  • Malagasy: “Brunei”
  • Malay: “bn”
  • Malay: “BRN”
  • Malay: “BRU”
  • Malay: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Malay: “Brunei”
  • Malay: “Negara Brunei Darussalam”
  • Malay: “بروني دارالسلام”
  • Malay: “بروني”
  • Malay: “نڬارا بروني دارالسلام”
  • Malay: “نڬارا بروني”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രൂണൈ”
  • Maltese: “Brunei”
  • Maltese: “Brunej”
  • Maltese: “il-Brunei”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕ꯭ꯔꯨꯅꯩ”
  • Manx: “Brunei”
  • Maori: “Poronai”
  • Marathi: “ब्रुनेई”
  • Mazanderani: “برونئی”
  • Mazanderani: “بورونئی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Ùng-lài”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bûn-lâi”
  • Minangkabau: “Brunei”
  • Mingrelian: “ბრუნეი დარუსალამი”
  • 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 Darussalama stáhta”
  • Northern Sami: “Brunei”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brunei”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brunei”
  • Norwegian: “Brunei”
  • Novial: “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: “ਬਰੁਨੇਈ”
  • 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”
  • Russian: “Государство Бруней-Даруссалам”
  • 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: “බෲනයි”
  • Sinhala: “බෲනායි”
  • Skolt Sami: “Brunei Darussalaam riikk”
  • Skolt Sami: “Brunei Darussalaam valdia”
  • Skolt Sami: “Brunei Darussalaam”
  • Skolt Sami: “Brunei”
  • Slovak: “Brunej Darussalam”
  • Slovak: “Brunej”
  • Slovak: “Brunejsko-darussalamský štát”
  • Slovenian: “Brunej”
  • Somali: “Barunay”
  • Somali: “Brunei Darussalam”
  • Somali: “Buruneey”
  • Somali: “Buruneeya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “برونئی”
  • Spanish: “Brunéi”
  • Spanish: “Bruney”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Brunéi Darussalam”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Brunéi, Morada de la Paz”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Bruney Darussalam”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Bruney, Morada de la Paz”
  • 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 Даруссалам”
  • Tatar: “Бруней”
  • Telugu: “బ్రునై”
  • Telugu: “బ్రూనే”
  • Telugu: “బ్రూనై”
  • Tetum: “Brunei”
  • Thai: “เนอการาบรูไนดารุสซาลาม”
  • Thai: “บรูไน”
  • Thai: “ประเทศบรูไน”
  • Thai: “ประเทศบรูไนดารุสซาลาม”
  • Thai: “รัฐบรูไนดารุสซาลาม”
  • Tibetan: “བྷི་རུ་ནི།”
  • Tibetan: “བུ་རུ་ནེ།”
  • Tigrinya: “ብሩነይ”
  • Tigrinya: “ብሩኒ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Brunai”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Pulunei”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Brunei”
  • 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 Darussalam”
  • Vietnamese: “Brunei”
  • Vietnamese: “Nhà nước Brunei Darussalam”
  • 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: “文萊”
  • Yue Chinese: “汶萊”
  • Zeeuws: “Brunei”
  • Zhuang: “Vwnzlaiz”
  • Zulu: “i-Brunei”
  • “BN”
  • “BRN”
  • “BRU”
  • “Brunei”
  • “Bruniejos”
  • “ma Punali Talusalan”
  • “ma Pune”
  • “ब्रुनेई”

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