Toboali () is a town in the
Indonesia
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n province of
Bangka-Belitung,
Indonesia
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. Toboali is the capital of the South Bangka Regency.
Economy
Significant numbers of the townspeople are employed in
pepper
Pepper or peppers may refer to:
Food and spice
* Piperaceae or the pepper family, a large family of flowering plant
** Black pepper
* ''Capsicum'' or pepper, a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family Solanaceae
** Bell pepper
** Chili ...
cultivation. In the
New Order era, tin mining was extensive across the province and a large number of the locals were employed either by the large tin mining corporations or by unconventional mines.
The tourism sector have been growing in the recent years. Tourist destinations include a Dutch-era fortress and the city's natural beaches. In 2016, the local government for the first time held a cultural carnival,
aimed to increase the number of tourists coming to the town.
Demographics
The majority of the people in Toboali are
Hakka Chinese
Hakka (, , ) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people throughout Southern China and Taiwan and throughout the diaspora areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities around th ...
and
Malay. Majority of Chinese are
Buddhist
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,
Catholic
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or
Protestant
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.
Climate
Toboali has a
tropical rainforest climate
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(Af) with heavy rainfall year-round.
References
Populated places in the Bangka Belitung Islands
Regency seats of the Bangka Belitung Islands
Districts of South Bangka Regency
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