Countries
Key facts
- Capital
- Bandar Seri Begawan
- Region
- Asia, South-Eastern Asia
- Population
- 466,330 (2025)
- Area
- 5,770 km²
- Currency
- Brunei dollar (BND), Singapore dollar (SGD)
- Languages
- Malay (macrolanguage), English
- Calling code
- +673
- Internet domain
- .bn
- ISO codes
- BN, BRN, 096
- Time zone
- UTC+8:00
- United Nations
- Member state
- Postal code pattern
- @@#### (# = digit, @ = letter)
Land and position
Brunei covers about 5,770 square kilometres. By area it ranks 175th among the 250 countries and territories on this site. It is a little smaller than Palestine and a little larger than Trinidad and Tobago. It shares a land border with 1 neighbour: Malaysia. Its centre lies at about 4° north, 115° east, in the northern hemisphere.
Neighbours
People
About 466,330 people live in Brunei (World Bank, 2025). That makes it the 175th most populous of the 246 places on this site with a figure. On average there are 81 people to each square kilometre. About 75 percent of people live in towns and cities (World Bank, 2025). A baby born there can expect to live about 76 years (World Bank, 2024). Languages listed for it: Malay (macrolanguage), English. A person from Brunei is called Bruneian.
Money and economy
The currency is the Brunei dollar (code BND, symbol $). Also listed as used here: Singapore dollar (SGD). The World Bank puts the size of its economy (GDP) at about US$ 15 billion (2025), which is about US$ 32,235 for each person (2025).
Time
Brunei uses one time zone, UTC+8:00 (Asia/Brunei). Clocks stay the same all year: there is no daylight saving time.
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Largest cities
| City | People |
|---|---|
| Bandar Seri Begawan | 64,409 |
| Sengkurong | 40,972 |
| Mentiri | 39,324 |
| Kuala Belait | 31,178 |
| Tutong | 19,151 |
| Serasa | 18,569 |
City figures are from GeoNames and count the city itself, not the wider urban area. They can be some years old, so use them to see the order of size.
More in South-Eastern Asia
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste. See the whole region.
Figures were collected on 11 November 2026 from the World Bank, GeoNames and the open countries data set. See About and data sources. Borders and names follow those sources and do not express any view on disputed territory.