The Great Empire of Brunei

The Great Brunei model

The full name of this country is Brunei Darussalam and its short conventional form is Brunei and the local name is Negara Brunei Darussalam. And its capital name is Bandar Seri Begawan and Brunei having four administration districts Belait, Temburong, Brunei-Muara and Tutong.

Brunei the sultanate of Brunei getting famous and at peaked in the centuries of 15th and 17th, between these years the Brunei Sultanate is on peaked because at that time this sultanate control the various coastal areas of Borneo and the Philippines but Brunei Sultanate also face a bad time and its decline time is started due to the European Colonial Expansion, sea piracy, internal fight and The Royal Succession. But after facing the tough time Brunei get independence in 1984 and became the protectorate of British in 1888. One of the very interesting things about the Brunei is that for the last 6 centuries the same family ruled on the Sultanate of Brunei and its peaked per capita GDPs of Brunei is due to the great natural gas and petroleum reserved and field.

The great Brunei is located in the continent of Southeast Asia and its neighbouring area is Malaysia and South China Sea. The total area of Brunei is about 5,766 square kilometre and its total land area is about 5,266 square kilometre and water occupies the total area of 501 square kilometres, the border area with Malaysia is about 267 kilometres and the coastline of Brunei is approximately 162 kilometres.

The environment of Brunei is hot, tropical, humid as well as rainy and if we talk about the terrain of the Brunei, it is coastal plain and hilly area. Brunei depends on the natural resources of timber, natural gas and petroleum and the area of about 2.6 percent is used for agricultural land, permanent pasture is about 0.7%, 1.2% is filled with permanent crops area and about 0.9% is used for arable area and 25.8% land is used for other activities and the remaining land area having a forest.

The Brunei national people named as Bruneian and here many other ethnic groups were survived such as 66% Malay, 10% Chinese, 23% other indigenous and the official language of Brunei is Malay and the other languages which are used to speaks the English and Chinese dialects. The total population of Brunei is about 429,647 and the religious division is about 79% Muslims, 10% Chinese and other indigenous is about 23%.

 

The literacy rate of Brunei is very good the age over 15 can write and read, the male literacy rate is about 98% and the female literacy rate is 95%. If we talk about the structure and constitution of Brunei, it is the draft in 1954 to 1959 and officially signed on September 29, 1959. The legal system is mixed with the Islamic law and English common law. Brunei is only the nonparty country to an international court of justice.

The political parties of Brunei have less influence on the state and were small parties and having less activities. Brunei participates in many international or regional organisations there are total thirty-nine organisations in which Brunei participated. The military branches of Brunei are Royal Brunei Armed, Land, Navy, and Air Force. And everyone whose age is 17 has served in the military and this is only for nationals of Brunei non-nationals is not eligible for recruitment.

Overall view of Brunei is seemed very awesome and valuable in front of the whole world because in every field no one equal with this small and great Brunei.