Kampong Semabat is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred ...

Temburong District Temburong District ( ms, Daerah Temburong; Jawi: دائيره تمبوروڠ) or simply Temburong () is the easternmost district in Brunei. It is an exclave — the land is separated from the rest of the country by Malaysia and Brunei Bay, a ...

Brunei Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its South China Sea coast, it is completely surrounded by t ...

, about from the district town Bangar. The population was 95 in 2021. It is one of the villages within

Mukim Bokok Mukim Bokok is a mukim in Temburong District, Brunei. It has an area of ; as of 2016, the population was 3,433. Name The mukim is named after Kampong Bokok, one of the villages it encompasses. Geography The mukim is located in the west o ...

. The postcode is PE4151.

Name

Kampong Semabat got its name from the word "Sebabat", which meant ''satu ikat'' (one knot/tie) in Murut language. According to folktale, a Murut man washed away a bundle (''sebabat'') of wood that went down the Semabat river to construct a house during that time.

Facilities

Semabat Primary School is the village's government primary school. The village mosque is . It was built in 1994 and can accommodate 200 worshippers.

References

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