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Bangka Belitung has significant areas of open sea and islands. Bangka Belitung has numerous beaches and several small islands. Some beaches are famous for their natural attractiveness with blue sea waters, variety of coral reefs, white sand, and giant granite rock formations. Thus, Bangka Belitung beaches have attracted tourists from around the ...
Bangka is the largest landmass of the province of the Bangka Belitung Islands. It lies just east of Sumatra, separated by the Bangka Strait; to the north lies the South China Sea, to the east, across the Gaspar Strait, is the island of Belitung, and to the south is the Java Sea. It is about 11,831 km 2 in area (including offshore islands). Most ...
On 23 January 1948, the states of the Bangka Council, the Belitung Council, and the Riau Council merged to form the Bangka Belitung and Riau Federation which in the following year was admitted as part of the United States of Indonesia - with seats in the federal People's Representative Council and Senate. [71]
Tanjungpandan is home to the Tanjungpandan Port, which serves the island of Belitung. [6] In 2011, the port authorities established a passenger terminal to promote tourism on the island of Belitung. The terminal was named the Laskar Pelangi Port, after the best-selling novel and movie by Andrea Hirata. The establishment of the terminal was a ...
Heirloom Kain Limar (1750–1825, from Bangka, probably Muntok. Muntok (Chinese: 文岛) or, more commonly, Mentok is a town in the Indonesian province of Bangka-Belitung on the island of Sumatra. The capital of West Bangka Regency (Bangka Barat), it is the site of the biggest tin smelter on the world
Belitung (Belitung Malay: Belitong, formerly Billiton) is an island on the east coast of Sumatra, Indonesia in the Java Sea.It covers 4,859 km 2 (1,876.1 sq mi) (including offshore islands such as Mendanau Island), and had a population of 309,097 at the 2020 Census; [1] the official estimate as at mid 2023 was 320,500. [2]
The province of the Bangka–Belitung Islands in Indonesia is divided into kabupaten or regencies which in turn are divided administratively into districts, known as kecamatan. The districts of the Bangka–Belitung Islands with the regency it falls into are as follows:
Pongok (Indonesian: Pulau Pongok), sometimes known as Liat, is an Indonesian island which is part of the Pongok Islands District of the South Bangka Regency, Bangka Belitung Province. It comprises over 95% of the district's area and most of its population, with an area of 48.3 square km.