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Bintulu

South-eastern Asia

Bintulu is a coastal town on the island of Borneo in the central region of Sarawak, Malaysia, 610 kilometres northeast of Kuching, 216 kilometres northeast of Sibu and 200 kilometres southwest of Miri. It is the capital of Bintulu District in Bintulu Division and had 114,058 people in 2010 according to the English Wikipedia article. The name comes from the local phrase Mentu Ulau, meaning picking heads, and the place was a small fishing village within the Bruneian Empire until Rajah James Brooke annexed it in 1861 and built a fort there in 1862. It stayed a fishing village until oil and gas were found offshore in 1969, and it is now a centre of energy-intensive industry, with a Malaysia LNG plant, and its port is the busiest in Sarawak.

Facts
Population
151,617 1
Elevation (m)
10 2
Elevation Band
Sea Level 2
Coastal
Yes 3
Climate Zone
Tropical 4
Time Zone
UTC+08:00 5
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1. GeoNames: Bintulu, Malaysia
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population 151,617
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2. Opentopodata (SRTM): SRTM 90 m elevation at 3.1733,113.0433
Opentopodata (SRTM)Elevation of the place coordinates 3.1733,113.0433, band assigned from the figure (up to 10 m sea level, otherwise lowland)
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"elevation": 10.0
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3. Bintulu (Wikipedia)
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    Bintulu is a coastal town on the island of Borneo
  • Part Of: Malaysia, Lead, location
    in the central region of Sarawak, Malaysia
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4. CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive): The World Factbook archive: Malaysia
CIA World Factbook (factbook.json archive)Geography.Climate.text
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tropical; annual southwest (April to October) and northeast (October to February) monsoons
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5. IANA Time Zone Database: IANA Time Zone Database, asia zone file
IANA Time Zone DatabaseComment above the Malaysia zone lines
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# Malaysia (eastern)
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Malaysia (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationOn Continent: Asia, Lead
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Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.
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