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Brunei Darussalam (nation)
Coordinates:
Lat: 04 30 00 N degrees minutes Lat: 4.5000 decimal degrees
Long: 114 40 00 E degrees minutes Long: 114.6667 decimal degrees
Note: Powerful and populous pre-Spanish state; visited by Magellan 1521; refuge for pirates; powerful Muslim sultanate 16th century, name "Borneo" used by Europeans for whole island; British control 19th-20th centuries; rejected membership in Federation of Malaysia 1963; official language is Malay, though English is widely spoken and used in official documents, and other non-Malay languages are spoken in the interior.
Names:
Brunei (preferred C ,V ,English ,U ,N ) ............ National Official name Brunei Nauruan )Brunei Malagasy )Brunei Vietnamese )Brunei Ilocano )Brunei Indonesian )Brunei Magyar (Hungarian) )Brunei Danish )Brunei Norwegian (Nynorsk) )Brunei Finnish )Brunei Swedish )Brunei Polish )Brunei Portuguese )Brunei Romanian )Brunei Catalan )Brunei Basque )Brunei Aragonese )Brunei Welsh )Brunei German )Brunei Low German )Brunei Albanian )Brunei Breton )Brunei Dutch )Brunei French ,U ,N )Brunei Galician )Brunei Faroese )Brunei Italian )Brunei Sicilian )Brunei Estonian )Brunei Greenlandic )Brunei Turkish )Brunei Occitan )Brunei Romansh )Brunei Malay (specific)-P ,U ,N )Brunei Kikuyu )Brunei Malay (macrolanguage) )Brunei North Ndebele )Brunei Norwegian )Brunei Pampanga )Brunei Northern Sami )Brunei Swahili (generic) )Brunei Waray (Philippines) )Brunei Ido )Brunei Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association) )Negara Brunei Darussalam (C ,V ,O ,Malay (specific) ,U ,N )Brunei Darussalam, Negara (C ,V )Brunei Darussalam (C ,V ,O ,English-P ,U ,N ) ............ UN Official name Brunei Darussalam Croatian )Brunei Darussalam Magyar (Hungarian) )Brunei Darussalam Danish )Brunei Darussalam Norwegian (Nynorsk) )Brunei Darussalam Polish )Brunei Darussalam Spanish-P ,U ,N )Brunei Darussalam German )Brunei Darussalam Dutch )Brunei Darussalam Norwegian (Bokmål) )Brunei Darussalam Malay (specific) ,U ,N )Islamic Sultanate of Brunei (C ,O ,English ,U ,N )State of Brunei Darussalam (C ,O ,English ,U ,N )State of Brunei, Abode of Peace (C ,O ,English ,U ,N )Brunéi (C ,O ,Spanish ,U ,N )Brunéi Darussalam (C ,O ,Spanish ,U ,N )Brunéi Darussalam French-P ,U ,N )Бруней-Даруссалам (C ,O ,Russian-P ,U )Бруней-Даруссалам Ukrainian )文莱达鲁萨兰国 (C ,O ,Chinese-P ,U )بروني دار اسًلام (C ,O ,Arabic-P ,U )BRN (C ,O ,ISO3L )BN (C ,O ,ISO2L )ISO096 (C ,O ,ISO3N )BX (C ,O ,FIPS )Bruneian (C ,O ,English ,U ,A )Brineyi (C ,U ,Lingala )Brineyi Luba-Katanga )Broenai (C ,U ,Limburgan )Broenei (C ,U ,Afrikaans )Brouney (C ,U ,Haitian (Haitian Creole) )Brúiné (C ,U ,Irish Gaelic )Brunae (C ,U ,Akan )Brùnaigh (C ,U ,Scots Gaelic )Brunän (C ,U ,Volapük )Bru-nây (C ,U ,Vietnamese )Brunay (C ,U ,Tagalog )Brûnei (C ,U ,Western Frisian )Brúnei (C ,U ,Icelandic )Brunêi (C ,U ,Sangho )Brunei nutome (C ,U ,Ewe )Bruneium (C ,U ,Latin )Brunej (C ,U ,Maltese )Brunej Croatian )Brunej Bosnian )Brunej Slovak )Brunej Slovene )Brunej Albanian )Brunej Czech )Bruneja (C ,U ,Latvian )Brunej Darussalam (C ,U ,Czech )Brunejo (C ,U ,Esperanto )Brunėjus (C ,U ,Lithuanian )Bruney (C ,U ,Azerbaijani )Bruney Cornish )Brûney (C ,U ,Kurdish )Bruneyi (C ,U ,Arpitan )Burinɛyi (C ,U ,Bambara )Burnaay (C ,U ,Fulah )Burunayi (C ,U ,Ganda (Ugandan language) )Burune (C ,U ,Hausa )Buruneeya (C ,U ,Somali )Burunei (C ,U ,Shona )Buruneyi (C ,U ,Rundi )i-Brunei (C ,U ,Zulu )Negeri Brunei (C ,U )Orílẹ́ède Búrúnẹ́lì (C ,U ,Yoruba )Pulunei (C ,U ,Tonga (Tonga Islands) )State of Brunei (C ,U )Sultanate of Brunei (C ,U )บรูไน (C ,U ,Thai )Бруней (C ,U ,Tajik )Бруней Bulgarian )Бруней Russian )Бруней Ukrainian )Бруней Ossetian/Ossetic )ប៊្រុយណេ (C ,U ,Khmer )புரூனேய் (C ,U ,Tamil )Брунеј (C ,U ,Serbian )ብሩኒ (C ,U ,Tigrinya )ብሩኒ Amharic )ブルネイ (C ,U ,Japanese )ব্রুনাই (C ,U ,Bengali )Бруней Даруссалам (C ,U ,Russian )برۇنېي (C ,U ,Uyghur )Μπρουνέι Νταρουσαλάμ (C ,U ,Greek )브루나이 (C ,U ,Korean )Бруней Дарусалам (C ,U ,Bulgarian )ბრუნეი (C ,U ,Georgian )برونئی (C ,U ,Urdu )برونئی Persian-Farsi )Բրունեյ (C ,U ,Armenian )ບູຮໄນ (C ,U ,Lao )بروني (C ,U ,Arabic )ברוניי (C ,U ,Hebrew )بروناي (C ,U ,Arabic )ब्रूनै (C ,U ,Sanskrit )文莱 (C ,U ,Chinese )ब्रुनेई (C ,U ,Marathi )ब्रुनेई Hindi )Брунеи (C ,U ,Macedonian )برونای (C ,U ,Pashto )ברוניי דארוסאלאם (C ,U ,Hebrew )Μπρουνέι (C ,U ,Greek )ประเทศบรูไน (C ,U ,Thai )ब्रूनइ (C ,U ,Hindi )ब्रुनाइ (C ,U ,Nepali )ବ୍ରୁନେଇ (C ,U ,Odia )بروونای (C ,U ,Kurdish )બ્રુનેઇ (C ,U ,Gujarati )བུ་རུ་ནེ། (C ,U ,Tibetan )ಬ್ರೂನಿ (C ,U ,Kannada )බෲනායි (C ,U ,Sinhala )బ్రునై (C ,U ,Telugu )ব্রুনেই (C ,U ,Bengali )Бруней-Дарусалам (C ,U ,Belarusian )ബ്രൂണൈ (C ,U ,Malayalam )ဘရူနိုင်း (C ,U ,Burmese )
Hierarchical Position:
.... Asia (continent) (P )
Additional Parents:
.... Asia (continent) (P )
.... Asia (continent) (P )
Place Types:
nation (preferred C ) ............ fully independent in 1983
primary political unit (C )
independent sovereign nation (C )
sultanate (C )
constitutional monarchy (C )
former territory/colony/dependent state (C )
protectorate (H ) ............ British, established 1888
occupied territory (H ) ............ by Japanese, December 1941-June 1945
independent political entity (C )
Related geographic places:
capital is .... Bandar Seri Begawan .................. (World, Asia, Brunei Darussalam, Brunei-Muara District) [1065983]
historical connection .... Bruneian Empire ........................................ (World, Asia) [8711734]
member of .... Commonwealth of Nations ................ (World) [7005615] ................ joined association in 1984
member of .... United Nations ................ (World) [7029605] ................ joined organization in 1984
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