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Tanjungpandan [fn 1], also colloquially written as Tanjung Pandan, is the largest town on the island of Belitung in the Indonesian province of Bangka Belitung Islands. Tanjungpandan is the capital of the Belitung Regency comprising one of the five districts ( kecamatan ) within that Regency.
H.A.S. Hanandjoeddin Airport [4] (Indonesian: Bandar Udara H.A.S. Hanandjoeddin) or formerly known as Buluh Tumbang Airport (IATA: TJQ, ICAO: WIKT, WIKD, WIOD) is a ...
Belitung Regency is a regency (kabupaten) of Bangka Belitung Islands Province, Indonesia, with the town of Tanjungpandan as the regency seat.It formerly covered the whole of Belitung island, but subsequently the eastern districts on the island have been cut out to create a new East Belitung Regency (Belitung Timur).
It was later renamed Takua Pa due to the rich ores found near the town: takua (ตะกั่ว) is the Thai word for lead, even though tin was the most important ore found there. Laem Pho Beach in the Chaiya district of Surat Thani province , on the other side of the isthmus 200 km distant, is thought to have been a Srivijaya Kingdom seaport ...
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Pretoria was built as yard number 506 by Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, Germany. [9] She was launched on 16 July 1936. [10] She was one of a pair of sister ships completed that year for Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie, the other being TS Windhuk. [6]
: Scientists have recently discovered a new primate species in Myanmar’s central forest. However, the Popa langur, named after nearby Mount Popa, is tragically already on the verge of extinction.
Depati Amir Airport is the airport serving Bangka Belitung, with daily flights to Jakarta, Palembang, Tanjungpandan, Surabaya and Batam by Garuda Indonesia, Citilink, Lion Air and Sriwijaya Air. A new terminal began operation on 11 January 2017, with an annual capacity of 1,500,000 passengers and an area of 12,000 square metres (3.0 acres).