The Pandaruan Bridge or Brunei–Malaysia Friendship Bridge (Malay: ''Jambatan Pandaruan'' or ''Jambatan Persahabatan Brunei–Malaysia'') is a bridge at the

border Borders are generally defined as geography, geographical boundaries, imposed either by features such as oceans and terrain, or by polity, political entities such as governments, sovereign states, federated states, and other administrative divisio ...

Brunei Brunei, officially Brunei Darussalam, is a country in Southeast Asia, situated on the northern coast of the island of Borneo. Apart from its coastline on the South China Sea, it is completely surrounded by the Malaysian state of Sarawak, with ...

and

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

. The bridge crosses the

Pandaruan River The Pandaruan River () is a river that forms an international border on the island of Borneo, between Temburong, Brunei and Limbang, Malaysia. It is located at the river mouth of the Brunei Bay. History On 4 May 1968, the 67 Gurkha Independ ...

between

Temburong Temburong District (; Jawi: دائيره تمبوروڠ) or simply known as Temburong ('; ), is the second largest and least populated district in Brunei. It has an area of and the population of 9,444 as of 2021. The district is also home to ...

and

Limbang Limbang is a border town and the capital of Limbang District in the Limbang Division of northern Sarawak, East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. This district area is 3,978.10 square kilometres, and population (year 2020 census) was 56,900. ...

. The bridge replaced the ferry service between two countries and was officially opened on 8 December 2013 by the

Malaysian Prime Minister The prime minister of Malaysia (; ) is the head of government of Malaysia. The prime minister directs the executive branch of the federal government. The Yang di-Pertuan Agong appoints the prime minister who is a member of Parliament (MP) wh ...

Najib Tun Razak Mohammad Najib bin Abdul Razak (, ; born 23 July 1953) is a Malaysian politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Malaysia from 2009 to 2018. In 2020, he was convicted of corruption in the 1Malaysia Development Berhad scandal, on ...

, and the

Sultan Sultan (; ', ) is a position with several historical meanings. Originally, it was an Arabic abstract noun meaning "strength", "authority", "rulership", derived from the verbal noun ', meaning "authority" or "power". Later, it came to be use ...

Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei.

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Bridges in Sarawak Bridges in Brunei Bridges completed in 2013 Box girder bridges in Malaysia Brunei–Malaysia border crossings {{Sarawak-stub