Kampong Tungku is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

Brunei-Muara District Brunei-Muara District ( ms, Daerah Brunei dan Muara; Jawi: برونائی-موارا ضلع) or simply Brunei-Muara is one of the four districts of Brunei. It has the smallest area among the four districts, with , yet is the most populous, wi ...

Brunei Brunei ( , ), formally Brunei Darussalam ( ms, Negara Brunei Darussalam, Jawi alphabet, Jawi: , ), is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Apart from its South China Sea coast, it is completely sur ...

, about from the capital

Bandar Seri Begawan Bandar Seri Begawan (BSB; Jawi: بندر سري بڬاوان; ) is the capital city of Brunei. It is officially a municipal area () with an area of and an estimated population of 100,700 as of 2007. It is part of Brunei-Muara District, the ...

. The population was 1,689 in 2016. It is one of the villages within Mukim Gadong 'A'. The

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is BE2119.

Geography

The village is located on the outskirts of the municipal area of the country's capital

, and about from its

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. As a village subdivision, it borders

Kampong Rimba Kampong Rimba (from the Malay name, literally translates as 'Rimba Village') is a village on the outskirts of Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. It is one of the village subdivisions under Mukim Gadong 'A', a mukim in Brunei-Muara ...

to the north-east; Area 1 and Area 5 of

RPN Kampong Rimba RPN Kampong Rimba or Kampong Rimba National Housing Scheme ( ms, Rancangan Perumahan Negara Kampung Rimba) is a public housing area in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei, on the northern outskirts of the capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The total popul ...

, and

STKRJ Kampong Rimba Skim Tanah Kurnia Rakyat Jati (STKRJ) Kampong Rimba or STKRJ Rimba is a public housing area on the northern outskirts of Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. It is officially a village subdivision under Mukim Gadong 'A', a mukim in Br ...

to the east; Area 1 and Area 2 of STKRJ Kampong Tungku to the south-east;

Kampong Katok Kampong Katok is a village in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei, about from the capital Bandar Seri Begawan. The population was 2,079 in 2016. It is one of the villages within Mukim Gadong 'A'. The postcode is BE2319. Geography The village i ...

and STKRJ Kampong Katok 'A' to the south; and Kampong Peninjau to the west. It also borders the

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to the north.

Administration

Kampong Tungku shares a

village head A village head, village headman or village chief is the community leader of a village or a small town. Usage Brunei In Brunei, village head is called or in the Malay language. It is an administrative post which leads the community of a v ...

() with the neighbouring village

Infrastructures

Roads

Road access to the village is served by Jalan Tungku from the south-east, and Jalan Rakyat Jati Rimba and the Tungku–Jerudong Highway from the north. Jalan Tungku is the main road in the settlement which traverses the area in the north-west–south-east direction. Jalan Rakyat Jati Rimba and the Tungku–Jerudong Highway terminate in Tungku at a roundabout junction with Jalan Tungku north of the settlement.

Education

The village's government primary school is Tungku Primary School. It also shares grounds with Tungku Religious School, the village's government school for the country's Islamic religious primary education. The following educational institutions are located within the village's administrative boundary: *

University of Brunei Darussalam Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD; Jawi: ) is a national research university located in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. It was established in 1985 and has since become the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curricu ...

(UBD), the country's national university *

University of Technology Brunei Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB; Jawi: يونيبرسيتي تيكنولوݢي بروني), is a national research university based in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. It was established as a higher learning institution in 1986, offering Higher Nati ...

(UTB), the country's

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Jerudong International School Jerudong International School (Abbrev: ) is a co-educational, boarding and day school in Brunei, Southeast Asia. It has over 1680 students - of which around 200 are boarding students. Less than 50% of its student body are Bruneians, with the rem ...

, one of the few international schools in the country and offers British curriculum * The Mechanical Campus of the

Institute of Brunei Technical Education The Institute of Brunei Technical Education (; abbreviation: ) is a post-secondary institution providing technical and vocational education in Brunei. IBTE was created on May 27, 2014 from the merger of the Department of Technical Education and s ...

(IBTE)

Religion

Pengiran Muda Abdul Malik Mosque is the village mosque, which is also shared with the residents of

. It was inaugurated on 27 July 2012 by

Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Hassanal Bolkiah ibni Omar Ali Saifuddien III ( Jawi: ; born 15 July 1946) is the 29th and current Sultan and Yang di-Pertuan of Brunei since 1967 and the Prime Minister of Brunei since independence from the United Kingdom in 1984. He is one ...

, the Sultan of Brunei. The mosque has a capacity for 1,000 worshippers. It is named after Prince Abdul Malik, a son of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah with the queen consort

Queen Saleha Saleha binti Mohamed Alam (born 7 October 1946) is the Queen of Brunei as the wife of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, the current Sultan of Brunei. She is the daughter of Pengiran Pemancha Pengiran Anak Haji Mohammad Alam and Pengiran Anak Hajah Bes ...

References

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