Brunei

Brunei

Brunei ranks 205th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Marshall Islands, Maldives, and Equatorial Guinea. Memorable people born in present day Brunei include Hassanal Bolkiah, Omar Ali Saifuddien III, and Muhammad Shah of Brunei. Memorable people who died in Brunei include Omar Ali Saifuddien III. Brunei has been the birth place of many politicians and religious figures and the death place of many politicians.

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 its territory bifurcated by the Sarawak district of Limbang. Brunei is the only sovereign state entirely on Borneo; the remainder of the island is divided between its multi-landmass neighbours of Malaysia and Indonesia. As of 2020, the country had a population of 460,345, of whom approximately 100,000 resided in the capital and largest city of Bandar Seri Begawan. Its official language is Malay and Islam is the state religion of the country, although other religions are nominally tolerated. The government of Brunei is an absolute monarchy ruled by the Sultan of Brunei, and it implements a fusion of English common law and jurisprudence inspired by Islam, including sharia. Read more on Wikipedia