Districts of Brunei Darussalam

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In "Administrative Subdivisions of Countries", I gave 1970 as the date for the change of the name of the capital from Brunei Town to Bandar Seri Begawan. The exact date was 1970-10-05.

Country overview: 

Short nameBRUNEI DARUSSALAM
ISO codeBN
FIPS codeBX
LanguageMalay
Time zone+8
CapitalBandar Seri Begawan

 

The Sultanate of Brunei was a British protectorate at the beginning of the 20th century. It became independent on 1983-12-31.

Other names of country: 

  1. Danish: Brunei
  2. Dutch: Brunei, Brunei Darussalam
  3. English: State of Brunei Darussalam (formal), Brunei (informal)
  4. Finnish: Brunei
  5. French: Brunéi m Darussalam
  6. German: Brunei n
  7. Icelandic: Brúnei
  8. Italian: Brunei
  9. Malay: Negara Brunei Darussalam (formal)
  10. Norwegian: Brunei, Brunei Darussalam
  11. Portuguese: Brunei m, Estado m do Brunei m Darussalam (formal)
  12. Spanish: Brunéi, "Estado m de Brunéi, Morada f de Paz f" (formal)
  13. Swedish: Brunei

Origin of name: 

Possibly from Sanskrit bhumi: land

Primary subdivisions: 

Brunei is divided into four daerah-daerah (sing. daerah: districts).

DivisionHASCFIPSPostPopulationArea(km.²)Area(mi.²)Capital
BelaitBN.BEBX01K65,3002,7251,052Kuala Belait
Brunei and MuaraBN.BMBX02B213,800570220Bandar Seri Begawan
TemburongBN.TEBX03P9,3001,166450Bangar
TutongBN.TUBX04T35,2001,303503Tutong
4 divisions323,6005,7652,226
  • HASC: Hierarchical administrative subdivision codes. If periods are replaced
    by hyphens, these are the same as the district codes from ISO standard 3166-2.
  • FIPS: Codes from FIPS PUB 10-4, a U.S. government standard.
  • Post: The new Brunei postal codes indicate the district by their first letter (see above).
  • Population: 1998-06 estimate.

Postal codes: 

Brunei Darussalam uses postal codes (poskod) in the format "aannnn", where the a's represent letters and the n's are digits. The first letter determines the district, and the second letter determines the mukim, where the address is located. Further details may be found on the Brunei Post Office  page (in Malay).

Further subdivisions:

See the Mukims of Brunei Darussalam page.

Territorial extent: 

Temburong is separated from the rest of Brunei by part of Sarawak (Malaysia) and Brunei Bay. However, the bay is only about 10 km. wide, and Brunei claims a 12-mile limit. Therefore, it's possible to go from Temburong to the rest of Brunei without leaving the country's territorial waters. Brunei and Muara contains the island of Pulau Muara Besar.

Change history: 

1970: Name of national capital changed from Brunei to Bandar Seri Begawan.

Other names of subdivisions: 

Brunei and Muara: Brunei-Muara (variant)
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