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Capital CityBandar Seri Begawan
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Regional RelationshipsBrunei and Malaysia are still considering international adjudication over their disputed offshore and deepwater seabeds, where hydrocarbon exploration was terminated in 2003 international legal adjudication; Malaysia's land boundary with Brunei around Limbang is in dispute; Brunei established an exclusive economic fishing zone encompassing Louisa Reef in the southern Spratly Islands in 1984, but makes no public territorial claim to the offshore reefs; the 2002 "Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea" has eased tensions in the Spratly Islands but falls short of a legally binding "code of conduct" desired by several of the disputants
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Environmental: Goals/Challenges/Agreements
Challenges
seasonal smoke/haze resulting from forest fires in Indonesia
International Agreements
Party to: Biodiversity, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
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Humanitarian Projects -
Native Languages Malay (official), English, Chinese
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Climate Tropical; hot, humid, rainy
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Regional InformationSoutheastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and Malaysia
