Bangka
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Bang·ka
An island of western Indonesia in the Java Sea separated from Sumatra by the narrow Strait of Bangka. Tin was discovered here in the early 1700s.
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Island, Bangka Belitung province, west-central Indonesia. Located off the eastern coast of Sumatra across the Bangka Strait, it is separated from Belitung (Billiton) island by Gelasa Strait. Its area is 4,375 sq mi (11,330 sq km); the chief town is Pangkalpinang. The sultan of Palembang ceded Bangka to the British in 1812. It was occupied by Japan during World War II and became part of Indonesia in 1950. Bangka is one of the world's chief tin-producing centres.
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Bangka
Bangka or Banka (both: bäng'kä, băng'kə), island (1990 pop. 626,955), c.4,600 sq mi (11,910 sq km), Indonesia, in the Java Sea, SE of Sumatra, from which it is separated by the narrow Strait of Bangka. Pangkalpinang is the largest town; Muntok is the principal port. Since c.1710, Bangka has been one of the world's principal tin-producing centers. Pepper is also produced on the island. The majority of the inhabitants are Chinese; they are mostly employed as mine laborers. Bangka was ceded to Britain by the sultan of Palembang in 1812, but in 1814 it was exchanged with the Dutch for Cochin in India. The island fell under Japanese control from 1942 to 1945. It became part of independent Indonesia in 1949.
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Banka may refer to:
- Banka, Bihar, a town in Bihar, India
- Banka district, Bihar, India
- Bankə, Azerbaijan
- Banka, Cameroon
- the Banka Gold Mining Project operated by Mwana Africa plc, in Ghana
- Banka, Piešťany District, a village in the Trnava Region (Piešťany District) of Slovakia
- the Basque language name for the commune of Banca, Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France
- the old name of Wanhua District, a district in Taipei, Taiwan
- Banka (Lok Sabha constituency)
- Banka, an island roughly between Sumatra and Singapore, see Bangka Island
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