Belait Beach | |
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Pantai Belait | |
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Location | Kuala Belait, Kuala Belait, Belait |
Nearest city | Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei-Muara |
Coordinates | 4°35′32″N114°12′44″E / 4.5921880°N 114.2121968°E |
Governing body | Kuala Belait and Seria Municipal Department |
Belait Beach (Malay : Pantai Belait), [1] also known as KualaBelait Beach (Malay : Pantai Kuala Belait), [2] is a beach in Kuala Belait, Mukim Kuala Belait, Belait District, Brunei. [3] The beach used to stretch from Kuala Belait to Pelumpong Spit but was cut and split at Muara Beach. [4]
Offshore platforms from the South West Ampa Field can also be seen in distance from the beach. [5] Seawalls have been built along the coastline in order to reduce erosion. [6] Activities such as surf fishing do take place on the beach. [7]
In 1930, British Malayan Petroleum Company (BMPC) constructed a telephone line along the Belait coastline which linked up Seria and Rasau. [8] As of 1934, the beach was used as a highway between the town and Tutong District. [9] In which a ferry would take passengers across the Tutong River separating the two districts. [10]
At midnight on 16 December 1941, [11] an amphibious assault was carried out by 10,000 soldiers from the Japanese Kawaguchi Detachment at Belait Beach as part of the Japanese occupation of British Borneo during World War II. [12] [13]
From 2001 to 2005, the Eighth National Development Plan (RKN 8) aimed to build a car park and dumping ground within two separate plans. [14] On 2 February 2020, a company was issued a penalty for illegal dumping on the beach. [15]
Kuala Belait is the administrative town of Belait District, Brunei. The population of the town proper was 4,259 in 2016. Kuala Belait is officially a municipal area, as well as a village under the mukim of the same name. The town is located 85 kilometres (53 mi) west of the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan, and 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Seria, the district's other town. It is also in the westernmost part of country, near the mouth of the Belait River.
Seria is a town in Belait District, Brunei, about 65 kilometres (40 mi) west from the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The total population was 3,625 in 2016. It was where oil was first struck in Brunei in 1929 and has since become a centre for the country's oil and gas industry. The town's bazaar, officially opened on 19 September 1954, has few retail establishments, fresh food markets, supermarkets, banking services, tourist information centers, and a range of restaurants, including Malay, Chinese, Indian, Indonesian and Italian ones as well as outdoor dining in somewhat rustic settings. For processing documentation related to owning a car and hiring domestic helpers (amahs), government offices are located in Kuala Belait.
The administrative divisions of Brunei Darussalam mainly consist of daerah (districts), mukim (sub-districts), and kampung or kampong (villages). They are organised hierarchically in Brunei Darussalam, with daerah being the largest first level, and kampong the smallest third level.
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Kampong Mumong or simply known as Mumong, is a residential suburb of Kuala Belait, the principal town of Belait District, Brunei. It comprises the original Mumong settlement, as well as the Mumong public housing estate of the Landless Indigenous Citizens' Housing Scheme. However, it officially consists of two village subdivisions, namely Mumong 'A' and Mumong 'B', which are under the mukim of Kuala Belait.
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Suri Seri Begawan Hospital (SSBH), also known as Kuala Belait Hospital, is a public hospital located in Kuala Belait, the primary town of Belait District, Brunei. It is the second largest hospital in the country, which accommodates 183 beds. The hospital provides secondary health care and other various specialties.
Kampong Sungai Liang or simply Sungai Liang, is a village in Belait District, Brunei, about 40 kilometres (25 mi) from the district's principal town Kuala Belait and 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the oil town Seria. The population was 910 in 2016. It is one of the villages within Mukim Liang. The postcode is KC1135.
Kampong Kuala Tutong, also simply known as Kuala Tutong, is a village in Tutong District, Brunei, within the mukim of Pekan Tutong. The postcode for Kampong Kuala Tutong is TA3341.
The Tutong people are an ethnic group native to Brunei, mainly in Tutong District. They traditionally speak the Tutong language. They are officially recognised as one of the seven ethnic groups of the Bruneian Malay race.
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