Kapit
Kapit is a town at the upper Rejang River, Sarawak, Malaysia. It can be reached by boat from Sibu or Belaga. As of Jan 2011, there are no speedboats heading north to Belaga due to a new dam up the river.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: City with 78,600 residents
- Description: town in Malaysia
- Also known as: “Kapit Fort”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kapit Airport and Fort Sylvia.
Kapit Airport
Aerodrome
Kapit Airport is an airport serving Kapit, a town in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia. It used to be operated by Malaysia Airlines, using the Twin Otter aircraft.
Fort Sylvia
Museum
The Fort Sylvia is a historical fort in Kapit, Sarawak, Malaysia. Built in 1880, it was renamed after Rani Sylvia Brooke, wife of Rajah Charles Vyner Brooke, in 1925.
Kapit
- Categories: human settlement, district of Malaysia, and locality
- Location: Kapit Division, Rejang River, Sarawak, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
2.0139° or 2° 0′ 50″ northLongitude
112.9357° or 112° 56′ 8″ eastPopulation
78,600Elevation
43 metres (141 feet)IATA airport code
KPIOpen location code
6PJJ2W7P+H7OpenStreetMap ID
node 2442172568OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
Discover Kapit from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kapit” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كابيت”
- Bengali: “কাপিট”
- Cebuano: “Kapit”
- Chinese: “加帛”
- Chinese: “加帛县”
- Chinese: “加帛縣”
- Danish: “Kapit”
- Dutch: “Kapit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كابيت”
- Finnish: “Kapit”
- French: “Kapit”
- Greek: “Καπίτ”
- Gujarati: “કપિત”
- Hindi: “कॅपिट”
- Hungarian: “Kapit”
- Iban: “Kapit”
- Indonesian: “Kapit”
- Irish: “Kapit”
- Italian: “Kapit”
- Japanese: “カピト”
- Kannada: “ಕಪಿತ್”
- Korean: “카핏”
- Latvian: “Kapita”
- Lithuanian: “Kapitas”
- Malay: “Kapit”
- Marathi: “कपित”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kapit”
- Norwegian: “Kapit”
- Persian: “کاپیت”
- Polish: “Kapit”
- Russian: “Капит”
- Sinhala: “කපිට්”
- Swedish: “Kapit”
- Tamil: “காப்பிட்”
- Telugu: “కపిట్”
- Thai: “กาปิต”
- Turkish: “Kapit”
- Ukrainian: “Капіт”
- Urdu: “کاپیت”
- Vietnamese: “Kapit”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Kapit”. Photo: howekee, CC BY 2.0.