Rejang River
The Rajang River is the longest river in Sarawak as well as Malaysia. The river and its tributaries serve as the main access route to the vast Sarawak hinterland which is dotted by small frontier towns and longhouses inhabited by the state's many tribes.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Sibu and Kapit.
Sibu
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.
Belaga
Belaga is a small town on the Rejang River in Malaysia's province of Sarawak. Whilst the village can be explored in well under an hour, most visitors arrive in Belaga in order to explore the many longhouses, as well as the interior of Borneo.Rejang River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Malaysia
- Also known as: “Bajang River”, “Batang Rajang”, “Rajakng River”, and “Rajang River”
- Category: river
- Location: Sarawak, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude of center
2.1167° or 2° 7′ north
Longitude of center
111.2° or 111° 12′ east
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Rejang River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر راجانج”
- Asturian: “Ríu Rajang”
- Belarusian: “Раджанг”
- Bulgarian: “Раджанг”
- Cebuano: “Batang Rajang”
- Central Bikol: “Salog Rajang”
- Chinese: “拉讓江”
- Chinese: “拉让江”
- Czech: “Rajang”
- Dutch: “Rajang River”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر راچانج”
- Esperanto: “Raĝango (rivero)”
- Esperanto: “Raĝango”
- Finnish: “Rajangjoki”
- French: “Rajang”
- German: “Rajang”
- German: “Rejang”
- Iban: “Batang Rajang”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Rajakng”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Rajang”
- Irish: “Abhainn Rajang”
- Italian: “Rajang”
- Japanese: “ラジャン川”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Batang Rajang”
- Lithuanian: “Radžangas”
- Malay: “Batang Rajang”
- Malay: “Sungai Rajang”
- Malay: “Sungai Rejang”
- Malayalam: “രാജാംഗ് നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rajang”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sungai Rajang”
- Norwegian: “Rajang”
- Polish: “Rajang”
- Russian: “Раджанг”
- South Azerbaijani: “راژانق چایی”
- Tajik: “Darjoi Raçang”
- Tajik: “Дарёи Раҷанг”
- Tajik: “Раҷанг”
- Tamil: “ராஜாங் ஆறு”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำราจัง”
- Turkish: “Rejang Nehri”
- Turkish: “Rejang”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Rajang”
- Welsh: “Afon Rajang”
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