Pengkalan Gadong

Pengkalan Gadong
Pengkalan Gadong
	Village
	Location in Brunei
	Coordinates: 4°54′50″N114°54′53″E / 4.913898°N 114.914641°E Coordinates: 4°54′50″N114°54′53″E / 4.913898°N 114.914641°E
Country	Brunei
District	Brunei-Muara
Mukim	Gadong B
Postcode	BE3719

Last updated May 01, 2019

Pengkalan Gadong (also Pangkalan Gadong) is a neighbourhood and commercial area in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. It is officially a village subdivision under Gadong B, a mukim (subdistrict) of Brunei-Muara District. Pengkalan Gadong is home to Gadong and Batu Bersurat, two of the commercial areas of the capital. The postcode for Pengkalan Gadong is BE3719.^[1]^[2]

Commercial areas in a city are areas, districts, or neighbourhoods primarily composed of commercial buildings, such as a downtown, central business district, financial district, "Main Street", commercial strip, or shopping centre. Commercial activity within cities includes the buying and selling of goods and services in retail businesses, wholesale buying and selling, financial establishments, and a wide variety of uses that are broadly classified as "business." While commercial activities typically take up a relatively small amount of land, they are extremely important to a community’s economy. They provide employment, facilitate the circulation of money, and often serve many other roles important to the community, such as public gathering and cultural events.

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Brunei, officially the Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace, is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its coastline with the South China Sea, the country is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak. It is separated into two parts by the Sarawak district of Limbang. Brunei is the only sovereign state completely on the island of Borneo; the remainder of the island's territory is divided between the nations of Malaysia and Indonesia. Brunei's population was 423,196 in 2016.

Name

Pengkalan Gadong is officially known in Malay as Kampung Pengkalan Gadong (Kampung is sometimes spelt as Kampong), which literally means 'Pengkalan Gadong Village'.

Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family spoken in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. A language of the Malays, it is spoken by 290 million people across the Strait of Malacca, including the coasts of the Malay Peninsula of Malaysia and the eastern coast of Sumatra in Indonesia and has been established as a native language of part of western coastal Sarawak and West Kalimantan in Borneo. It is also used as a trading language in the southern Philippines, including the southern parts of the Zamboanga Peninsula, the Sulu Archipelago and the southern predominantly Muslim-inhabited municipalities of Bataraza and Balabac in Palawan.

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References

↑ "Brunei Postal Services - postcodes". post.gov.bn. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
↑ "Kampong Pengkalan Gadong, Gadong, Brunei Muara: BE3719 | Brunei Postcode". brn.postcodebase.com. Retrieved 2018-04-15.

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[1] "Brunei Postal Services - postcodes". post.gov.bn. Retrieved 2018-04-15.

[2] "Kampong Pengkalan Gadong, Gadong, Brunei Muara: BE3719 | Brunei Postcode". brn.postcodebase.com. Retrieved 2018-04-15.

v t e Neighbourhoods of Bandar Seri Begawan
Berakas 'A'	Anggerek Desa Burong Pingai Berakas Jaya Bakti Jaya Setia Orang Kaya Besar Imas Pancha Delima Pengiran Siraja Muda Delima Satu Pulaie Serusop
Berakas 'B'	Madang Manggis Sungai Akar
Burong Pingai Ayer	Burong Pingai Ayer Lurong Dalam Pandai Besi 'A' Pandai Besi 'B' Pekan Lama Pengiran Setia Negara Sungai Pandan 'A' Sungai Pandan 'B'
Gadong 'B'	Beribi Kiarong Kiulap Mata-Mata Menglait Pengkalan Gadong
Kianggeh	Berangan City Centre Diplomatic Enclave Kianggeh Kumbang Pasang Melabau Parit Pusar Ulak Tasek Lama Tumasek Tungkadeh
Kilanas	Bunut Bunut Perpindahan Madewa Tasek Meradun Telanai
Kota Batu	Belimbing Kota Batu Pelambayan Pintu Malim Subok Sungai Lampai
Peramu	Bakut Berumput Bakut Pengiran Siraja Muda 'A' Bakut Pengiran Siraja Muda 'B' Lurong Sikuna Pekilong Muara Peramu Setia Pahlawan Lama
Saba	Saba Darat 'A' Saba Darat 'B' Saba Laut Saba Tengah Saba Ujong
Sungai Kebun	Bolkiah 'A' Bolkiah 'B' Setia 'A' Setia 'B' Sungai Kebun Sungai Siamas Ujong Kelinik
Tamoi	Pengiran Bendahara Lama Pengiran Kerma Indera Lama Pengiran Tajuddin Hitam Tamoi Tengah Tamoi Ujong