evidence: A quick glance at a map reminds me that two physically distinct sections compose Brunei. Temburong, with its capital in Bangar, forms a single district (daerah) encompassing the entire eastern portion of the country. Fewer than 10,000 people or only about 3% of Brunei’s population live there. [...] Brunei Darussalam is a remnant of a much larger Brunein sultanate that once encompassed all of Borneo and parts of the Philippines at its height. Its final contraction came as a result of the territorial aspirations of its neighbors, the White Rajahs of Sarawak during the latter half of the nineteenth century. The land split into its two distinctive portions when the Sultan of Brunei ceded the intervening Limbang district to the White Rajahs. Limbang is now a part of Malaysia, a point that Brunei still disputes. The residual bits of land became a British protectorate in 1888. Thus, that defined Brunei’s modern borders when the United Kingdom finally conferred independence in 1984.