Brunei

Capital: Bandar Seri Begawan

Brunei is the only sovereign state entirely on Borneo. Its coast faces the South China Sea, and Malaysia's Sarawak state surrounds most of it.
Ulu Temburong National Park, the country's first, was set up in 1991. Its canopy walkway rises about 50 metres above the forest floor, and visitors reach it only by river.
Kampong Ayer is a water village on stilts above the Brunei River. Its houses, schools and mosques are joined by walkways and bridges, and it is often called the Venice of the East.
The Omar Ali Saifuddien Mosque, finished in 1958, has a golden dome covered in more than three million pieces of Venetian glass.
Bandar Seri Begawan averages about 2,913 millimetres of rain a year, on around 205 days, with temperatures near 23 to 32 degrees Celsius.

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