Kampong Penanjong 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 to ...

Tutong District Tutong District (; Jawi: دائيره توتوڠ) or simply Tutong is one of the four districts of Brunei. It has an area of ; the population was 48,313 in 2016. The administrative town is Pekan Tutong. It is home to Tasek Merimbun, the count ...

Brunei Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi alphabet, 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 sur ...

, on the outskirts of the district town

Pekan Tutong Tutong or officially known as Tutong Town ( ms, Pekan Tutong) is a municipality town in Mukim Pekan Tutong Tutong District, Brunei. It is located about from the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan. Governance It is officially a Municipa ...

. The population was 2,065 in 2016. It is one of the villages within

Mukim Pekan Tutong Mukim Pekan Tutong is a mukim in Tutong District, Brunei. The population was 10,551 in 2016. It encompasses Pekan Tutong, the district's sole town and administrative centre. Geography The mukim is located in the north-west of Tutong District ...

, a

mukim A mukim is a type of administrative division used in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. The word ''mukim'' is a loanword in English. However, it was also originally a loanword in Malay from the Arabic word: (meaning ''resident''). The clo ...

in the district.

Facilities

Penanjong Primary School is the village primary school; it was established in 1936. There is also Penanjong Religious School which is the village school for the primary level of the country's Islamic religious education. The current village mosque is Kampong Penanjong Mosque; it was inaugurated on 6 April 1984 and can accommodate 500 worshippers. It replaced the former village mosque, Cahaya Derma Bakti Mosque, to accommodate the growing number of worshippers. The former mosque had been inaugurated by

Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien III Sultan Sir Omar Ali Saifuddien Sa'adul Khairi Waddien ( Jawi: ; 23 September 1914 – 7 September 1986) was the 28th Sultan of Brunei, reigning from 4 June 1950 until his abdication from the throne on 5 October 1967. He was also Brunei's fir ...

on 25 August 1961. is a recreational area on Penanjong Beach, the beach along the village's coast with the

South China Sea The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by the shores of South China (hence the name), in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Phil ...

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