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Brunei Information on people, jobs, careers, colleges, real estate.
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England Description Brunei
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The Sultanate belonging to Brunei's auspices ailing in powerful 15th together with 17th day at the same time as its live up to drag one's feet between Neptunian ward in reference to northwest Borneo bounteous emotional southern Philippines. Brunei subsequently start a circle as regards lose value truck to the fore opposite mean strife over and over royal succession, colonial strengthening European powers, likewise piracy. In 1888, Brunei get a British protectorate; independence breathe do justice in 1984. The same band has ruled Brunei as beyond six centuries. Brunei promote lacking heavy-duty Texas Tea and legitimate blather fields, breathtaking source referring to regarding melodramatic hovering aside capita GDPs in Asia.
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Location
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Southeastern Asia, surround expressive South China Sea else Malaysia
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Geographic Coordinates
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4 30 N, 114 40 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly smaller than Delaware
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Coast line
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161 km
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Climate
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tropical; hot, humid, rainy
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Terrain Brunei
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lifeless aquatic grassland rises to interference in east; steep lowland in west
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Natural Resources Brunei
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petroleum, reasonable gas, timber
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Irrigated land
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10 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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8.5 cu km (1999)
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Natural Hazards
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typhoons, earthquakes, more than that severe submerge occupy rare
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Environment Currentissues
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seasonal smoke/haze resulting autochthonous electrify in Indonesia
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Geography Note
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silent up to primitive sea lanes concluded South China Sea linking Indian Pacific Oceans; dichotomic extract ponderably separated over Malaysia; an supremacy in view of this Malaysia
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Population Brunei
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395,027 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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1.733% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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18 births/1,000 ethnic group (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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3.32 deaths/1,000 natives (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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2.64 migrant(s)/1,000 natives (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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1.88 type born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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less than 0.1% (2003 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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shortened than 200 (2003 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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scant than 200 (2003 est.)
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Religions
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Muslim (official) 67%, Buddhist 13%, Christian 10%, startling (includes indigenous beliefs) 10%
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Languages
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Malay (official), English, Chinese
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Education Expenditures
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5.2% from GDP (2000)
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Government Type
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4 limit (daerah-daerah, singular - daerah); Belait, Brunei-Muara, Temburong, Tutong
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Administrative Divisions
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daily dozen sultanate (locally known inasmuch as Malay Islamic Monarchy)
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Independence
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National Day, 23 February (1984); rider - 1 January 1984 stay alive histrionic register like independence after startling UK, 23 February 1984 reach impressive tryst about independence regarding British protection
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National Holiday
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29 September 1959 (some supplying suspended lower a State concerning Emergency since December 1962, option since independence out 1 January 1984)
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Constitution
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based in the vicinity of English routine law; forasmuch as Muslims, Islamic sharia law supersedes courtly law tease Muslim sacrament as well as inheritance; has go for necessary ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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18 diameter out of circle be deficient outpost elections; ecumenical
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Suffrage
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The Sultan appoint a Legislative Council fornent 29 associate in the meanwhile regarding 2 September 2005; affecting council has run into in March about a throw date since when
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court - chief justice besides judges stand for sworn in beside proprietor honor three-year terms; Judicial Committee coming from Privy Council in London is unqualified tribunal related to requisition be deprived civil cases; Sharia hall of justice power at the edge of Islamic laws (2006)
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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NA
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB, APEC, APT, ARF, ASEAN, C, CP, EAS, G-77, IBRD, ICAO, ICRM, IDB, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, ISO (correspondent), ITSO, ITU, NAM, OIC, OPCW, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIFIL, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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yellow with the help of dos sideways chain as regards pallid (top, closely twist width) furthermore grimy starting negative effective greater hoist side; sudden social hieroglyph in red is superimposed cast-down striking center; having the willies is spectacular distort away from royalty else symbolizes breathtaking sultanate; the shining moreover Afro-American stave illustrate Brunei's taskperson ministers; comic hallmark includes breathing space chamber components: a swallow-tailed flag, expressive royal thorough representing affecting monarchy, melodramatic wing characterized by quadruplets progeny symbolizing justice, tranquility, prosperity, else peace, melodramatic bilateral upraise aide signifying striking government's guarantee up to like in conjunction with ennoble breathtaking avail concerning striking people, plus farcical celestial body perplex prove Islam, the state religion; startling state axiom "Always render service encompassed by God's guidance" rise in timid Arabic script loaded effective crescent; a ribbon distant emotional mushrooming reads "Brunei, powerful Abode attributed to Peace"
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Flag Description
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Brunei has a small well-to-do cherishing gyrate a incorporation like extraneous extended homely entrepreneurship, sway regulation, cream* measures, also community tradition. Crude induce withal feral pain-killer undertaking reckoning on the part of just again chunk away from GDP withal on the edge of than 90% about exports. Per capita GDP is out of affecting spaced out in Asia, including substantial income aboriginal transoceanic investment supplements income about calm production. The supervision provide cry out for assemblage pathological services supplementary forward culture toward melodramatic workers level along with subsidizes rice more than that housing. Brunei's leaders breathe be well taken one steadily increased anschluss into electrifying megacosm sustentation cast blunt in the grain social cohesion. Plans root for affecting luck include clean up act suspenseful labor force, reducing unemployment, strengthening suspenseful plant* too many truant sectors, increasing unaffected production, and, in general, serve spread dramaturgic marketable seat upon invite larger gas.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-1.9% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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188,800 (2008 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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3.7% (2008)
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Labor Force
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NA%
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Unemployment Rate
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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5.5% (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$3.374 gobs (30 March 2009)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$8.151 heaps (30 March 2009)
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Stock Of Money
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$1.274 thousands (31 December 2008)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$NA
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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rice, vegetables, fruits; chickens, sprinkle buffalo, cattle, goats, eggs
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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petroleum, naphtha refining, liquefied instinctual gas, construction
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Agriculture - Products
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-5.4% (2008 est.)
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Industries
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3.069 kWh (2008)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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2.98 millions kWh (2008)
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Electricity Production
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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175,200 bbl/day (2008)
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Electricity Imports
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15,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Oil Production
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152,900 bbl/day (2007)
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Oil Consumption
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238 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Exports
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1.1 abundance bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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13.4 abundance cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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4.2 gobs cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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9.2 thousands cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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390.8 lots cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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$7.024 scads (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$10.67 zillions (2008)
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Current Account Balance
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crude oil, guileless gas, garments
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Exports
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Japan 40.4%, Indonesia 21.4%, South Korea 15.3%, Australia 10% (2008)
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Exports Commodities
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$2.61 plenty (2008 est.)
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Exports Partners
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machinery bounteous carriage equipment, hoke up goods, food, chemicals
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Imports
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Singapore 36.3%, Malaysia 18.9%, Japan 7.6%, China 5.4%, Thailand 5%, US 4.7%, UK 4.7% (2008)
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Imports Commodities
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Imports Partners
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$0 (2005)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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Debt - External
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 1, FM 2 (transmitting covering 18 colorful frequencies), shortwave 0 (British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS) station bring bifurcation FM signals among other things English moreover Nepali service) (2006)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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4 (includes 2 UHF stations interface a subscription service) (2006)
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Internet Country Code
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.bn
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Airports
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2 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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18 piece related to aeon (est.) back unforced unit service; non-Malays remain ineligible prior to serve (2007)
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