Belait (district)

Belait
Basic data
Country	Brunei
Capital	Kuala Belait
surface	2727 km²
Residents	63,200 (2018 census)
density	23 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2	BN-BE
Website	belait.gov.bn (MALAY)

Coordinates: 4 ° 30 '  N , 114 ° 30'  E

Belait is a district ( Daerah ) of the Sultanate of Brunei . With an area of ​​2,727 km² it is the largest and with a population of 69,992 (as of 2016) the second most populous of the four Brunei districts. The capital of Belait is Kuala Belait .

Belait is located in western Brunei on the border with Malaysia . The district capital Kuala Belait is about 120 km away from the capital Bandar Seri Begawan . The Belait , the longest river in Brunei, flows through the district .

Education and economy

St. Margaret's School is located in the district .

Belait, and the town of Seria in particular , are the heart of Brunei's oil and natural gas industry . There are two oil and gas fields on land: the Seria Oil Field (discovered in 1929) and the smaller Rasau Field . A little further from the coast are the offshore fields South-West Ampa , Fairley , Fairley baram and Egret fields .

Population development

1947	1971	1981	1991	2001	2011	2016
12 567	42 400	50 768	52 957	55 602	60 744	69 992

Administrative division

Districts in Belait

The Belait district is divided into eight districts ( mukim ):

• Bukit Sawat
• Kuala Balai
• Kuala Belait
• Labi
• Liang
• Melilas
• Seria
• Sukang

literature

• Peter W. Martin: Sociohistorical Determinants of Language Shift among the Belait Community in the Sultanate of Brunei . In: Anthropos. Internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- und Sprachenkunde , Vol. 91 (1996), pp. 199–207.

Web links

• Official Brochure (English / Malay)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sheet T2
2. ↑ http://www.information.gov.bn/PublishingImages/SitePages/Publication%20Lists/BelaitDistrict.pdf
3. ↑ ^{a b} Belait District. Borneo tour. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
4. ^ Brunei: Districts & Cities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information. Retrieved May 16, 2018 .