Mukim Bangar is 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 ...

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, an ...

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 ...

. It has a total area of ; the population was 2,449 in 2016. The mukim encompasses Bangar, the district's sole town and administrative centre.

Name

The mukim is named after the town Bangar, which is also the predominant settlement it encompasses.

Geography

The mukim is located in the north-west of the

, bordering Mukim Labu to the north,

Mukim Batu Apoi Mukim Batu Apoi is a mukim in Temburong District, Brunei. It has an area of ; as of 2016, the population was 1,635. Name The mukim is named after Kampong Batu Apoi, one of the villages it encompasses. Geography The mukim is located in th ...

to the east,

Mukim Amo Mukim Amo is a mukim in Temburong District, Brunei. It has an area of ; the population was 2,144 in 2016. Name The mukim is named after Kampong Amo, one of the villages it encompasses. Geography The mukim is located in the eastern part ...

to the south-east,

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 ...

to the south-west and

Limbang District The Limbang District is one of the two districts of Limbang Division, Malaysia. It has a total area of 3,978.10 square kilometres. The major town is Limbang. It has one sub-district, which is Nanga Medamit Sub-District. It borders Brunei Dar ...

in the Malaysian state of

Sarawak Sarawak (; ) is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia. The largest among the 13 states, with an area almost equal to that of Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak is located in northwest Borneo Island, and is bordered by the M ...

to the west and north. Mukim Bangar has one island within its vicinity which is Pulau Kibi.

Demographics

As of

2016 census Sixteen or 16 may refer to: *16 (number), the natural number following 15 and preceding 17 *one of the years 16 BC, AD 16, 1916, 2016 Films * ''Pathinaaru'' or ''Sixteen'', a 2010 Tamil film * ''Sixteen'' (1943 film), a 1943 Argentine film dir ...

, the population was 2,449 with males and females. The mukim had 535 households occupying 515 dwellings. Among the population, lived in urban areas, while the remainder of lived in rural areas.

Villages

As of 2016, the mukim comprised the following census villages:

Border crossings

There is a road border crossing into Malaysia's

state at Kampung Ujung Jalan, 5km from Bangar town. Previously the crossing had to be done by vehicular ferry across the

Pandaruan River The Pandaruan River ( ms, Sungai Pandaruan) is a river that forms an international border on the island of Borneo, between Temburong, Brunei and Limbang, Malaysia. It is located at the river mouth of the Brunei Bay. History On 4 May 1968, the ...

which forms the Brunei-Malaysia border. However, a Malaysia-Brunei Friendship Bridge has been constructed and opened to vehicular traffic on 8 December 2013. Both Brunei and Malaysia have constructed new customs, immigration and quarantine checkpoints at the location of the crossing. The Brunei checkpoint is called the Ujung Jalan Immigration Checkpoint. Before the construction of the bridge, the Brunei customs, immigration and quarantine checkpoint was housed in a wooden building in Kampung Puni, 500m from the ferry landing towards Bangar, while Malaysian customs and immigration procedures had to be carried out at Limbang wharf in Limbang, 15km away as there was no checkpoint at Pandaruan. File:Brunei puni entry.JPG, Old Brunei entry stamp from the Puni border checkpoint before the opening of the Ujung Jalan checkpoint. File:Brunei Exit 2018.jpg, Ujung Jalan checkpoint exit stamp.

Notes

References

Bangar Temburong District Brunei–Malaysia border crossings {{Brunei-geo-stub