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Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque, Istana Nurul Iman, Bukit Pagon and 7 more — what each one is, and why it is worth the detour.
Chosen from everything Wikidata knows about Brunei and ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions describe them, which is about as close to "famous" as open data gets.
National mosque of Brunei
Unofficially the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin Mosque, a mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, capital of Brunei, and one of the country's two state mosques; the other is the Jame' Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque.
Photo: Daniel Weiss, CC BY-SA 3.0
Official residence of the Sultan of Brunei
The official home of Brunei's Sultan, Hassanal Bolkiah, and seat of the government, set among leafy hills beside the Brunei River, a few kilometres southwest of Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital.
Photo: de:Benutzer:Chtrede, CC BY-SA 3.0 de
Hill in Temburong District, Brunei
Brunei's highest point, 1,841 metres (6,040 ft) above sea level, in Temburong District in the east of the country, on the border with Sarawak.
Photo: Accassidy, CC BY 3.0
Mosque in Kiarong, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
A Sunni mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, the largest in Brunei and one of its two state mosques; the other is the Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque.
Photo: Balou46, CC BY-SA 3.0
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Automotive bridge in SE Asia which connects the Brunei mainland to its exclave
Also called Temburong Bridge, a dual-carriageway bridge across Brunei Bay, linking the Bruneian mainland with Temburong District, its semi-exclave. At 30 kilometres (19 mi), it is the longest bridge in Southeast Asia.
Photo: Peter L. Higgs, CC BY-SA 4.0
Mosque in Mentiri, Brunei-Muara, Brunei
A Sunni mosque at Mentiri, which is a settlement area of Brunei's Brunei-Muara District.
Photo: Zulfadli51, CC BY-SA 4.0
Forest reserve in Brunei
A nature reserve of 2,650 hectares (10.2 mi²) in Mukim Batu Apoi, Temburong District, Brunei, about 15 km (9.3 mi) from the town of Bangar.
Photo: Виктор Пинчук, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Sunni mosque in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
Opened in 2012 within the Prime Minister's Office complex on Jalan Kumbang Pasang, Kampong Melabau, Bandar Seri Begawan, a mosque combining Andalusian and Moorish styles, with mosaics from Morocco, a dome from Italy and the first roof in Brunei that can be opened.
Photo: AfiqahAA, CC BY-SA 4.0
Mosque in Tutong, Brunei
Also called Hassanal Bolkiah Mosque, Pekan Tutong, a Sunni mosque about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from Tutong, the town of Brunei's Tutong District. Opened in 1966, it holds up to 1,000 worshippers and has a library, a hall for many uses and a room for preparing the dead for burial.
Photo: Pangalau, CC BY-SA 4.0
Palace in Brunei
A palace on Jalan Darussalam, Kampong Sumbiling Lama, in Brunei's Brunei–Muara District, once the home of Omar Ali Saifuddien III and the birthplace of Hassanal Bolkiah, Sultan of Brunei.
Photo: Yu Chu Chin, CC BY-SA 4.0
Officially Brunei Darussalam, a Southeast Asian country on the north coast of Borneo. Apart from its shore on the South China Sea it is wholly enclosed by Sarawak, a Malaysian state, whose Limbang district splits Brunei in two. It is the only sovereign state lying entirely on Borneo; the rest of the island is shared by Indonesia and Malaysia, neighbours that each span many landmasses.
Officially The Nation of Brunei, the Abode of Peace. Known locally as Brunei Darussalam.
Based on the Wikipedia article, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: the facts are Wikipedia's, the wording is this site's.
This guide lists 10: Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque, Istana Nurul Iman, Bukit Pagon and Jame' Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque and others.
By machine, from open data, with no human ranking them and nobody able to pay for a place on the list. Everything Wikidata records in Brunei that is a building, a landform, a protected area or a tourist attraction, has coordinates, a photograph and an English Wikipedia article, is ranked by how many Wikipedia language editions wrote about it. Provinces, cities, airports, stations and stretches of sea shared with the neighbours are filtered out.
Malay. The currency is BND.
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