Key facts
- Country
- Brunei
- District
- Belait
- Mukim
- Kuala Belait
- Village head
- Sufrizal Hamdan
- Total
- 4,544
- Time zone
- UTC+8 ( BNT )
- Postcode
- KA1131
- Website
- bandaran-kb .gov .bn
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Encyclopedic overview
Kuala Belait (KB) or officially the Kuala Belait Town (Malay: Pekan Kuala Belait), is the administrative town of Belait District, Brunei. The population of the town proper was 4,544 in 2021. Kuala Belait is officially a municipal area (kawasan bandaran), as well as a settlement under the mukim of the same name. The town is located 85 kilometres (53 mi) west of the country's capital Bandar Seri Begawan, and 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of Seria, the district's other town. It is also in the westernmost part of country, near the mouth of the Belait River.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kuala Belait” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.