Kampong Pandan is a

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Kuala Belait Kuala Belait (KB; Jawi: ) 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 t ...

, the principal town of

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. It has a population of around 16,200 in 2016. It encompasses a housing estate of the country's

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Name

Kampong Pandan comes from the same name in

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which translates as 'Pandan Village'. It is probably named after '' pandan'', a tropical plant known for its aromatic leaves.

Geography

Kampong Pandan is surrounded by the

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to the north,

Panaga Panaga is a coastal settlement on the north-east coast of the island of Borneo, in the Bruneian district of Belait. Officially known in Malay as (sometimes ), it is a village-level subdivision under Seria, a mukim or subdistrict of Belait. The s ...

to the east,

Mumong 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 List of public housing estates in Brunei, publ ...

to the south and Kuala Belait proper to the west.

Administration

For census and other administrative purposes, Kampong Pandan has been divided into three

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(): Each village is assigned a

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(). All of the administrative villages of Kampong Pandan are under

Mukim Kuala Belait Mukim Kuala Belait is a mukims of Brunei, mukim in Belait District, Brunei. The population was 31,308 in 2016. The mukim encompasses Kuala Belait, the administrative town of the district. Geography The mukim is the located in the westernmost p ...

, a

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subdivision of

. The villages are also part of the municipal area of Kuala Belait.

Infrastructures

Schools

Kampong Pandan is home to two of Kuala Belait's government primary schools, namely Pengiran Setia Jaya Pengiran Abdul Momin Primary School and Paduka Seri Begawan Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Primary School. Kampong Pandan is also home to two of the town's government secondary schools, namely Pengiran Jaya Negara Pengiran Haji Abu Bakar Secondary School and Sayyidina Ali Secondary School. Pengiran Jaya Negara Pengiran Haji Abu Bakar Secondary School also houses a counterpart of

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, the country's secondary school which specialises in science and mathematics. Meanwhile, Sayyidina Ali Secondary School formerly housed the district's sole

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; the latter now has a dedicated building located in the adjacent neighbourhood

. Each of Pengiran Setia Jaya Pengiran Abdul Momin Primary School, Pengiran Jaya Negara Pengiran Haji Abu Bakar Secondary School and Sayyidina Ali Secondary School also house an school, the school for the country's Islamic religious primary education. One of the two post-secondary vocational schools in Kuala Belait,

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, is also located in Kampong Pandan.

Miscellaneous

Kampong Pandan encompasses the

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RPN Kampong Pandan. Kampong Pandan Mosque is the local mosque. It was opened in 1996 and can accommodate 1,100 worshippers. Kampong Pandan Library is the local public library and operated by

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. It was inaugurated on 3 May 2006. The library houses a dedicated reading collection pertaining to

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, the country's primary oil and gas company.

Notes

References

{{Belait District Belait District Populated places in Brunei