Kapit

Kapit is a town on the south bank of the Rajang River in Sarawak, Malaysia, and the capital of Kapit District in Kapit Division. The district covers 15,595.6 square kilometres and had a population of 65,800 as of 2020. The town lies about 140 kilometres upriver from Sibu and is the commercial and social centre of the middle Rajang, serving longhouse communities and timber camps and acting as a base for trips to the Upper Rejang and Balleh rivers. Rajah Charles Brooke had Fort Kapit built there in 1880 to stop the Iban moving up river to attack Orang Ulu settlements, and Hoklo Chinese settled around it in the same year. The fort was renamed Fort Sylvia in 1925, a peace treaty between the Iban and the Orang Ulu was signed there in 1924, and Kapit became a division on 2 April 1973. It can be reached by express boat from Sibu, by light aircraft, and since 2021 by a completed road.