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Belitung

British

/ bɪˈliːtʊŋ /

noun

another name for Billiton

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Belitung

Residents first spotted the fire approaching their village in Bangka Belitung province on Saturday and tried to put it out themselves with portable water pumps.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia launched a search operation near Belitung island in the Java Sea.

From US News ● Dec. 29, 2014

It was roughly halfway between Surabaya and Singapore when it went missing in bad weather, somewhere from Tanjung Pandan on Indonesia's Belitung island to Pontianak, in West Kalimantan, Borneo.

From Reuters ● Dec. 28, 2014

There is a chain here: Bangka and Belitung produce 90% of Indonesia's tin, and Indonesia is the world's second-largest exporter of the metal.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2012

Rainfall in Bangka Belitung province, the main producing region, is hampering mining, according to Abrun Abubakar, corporate secretary at Timah.

From BusinessWeek ● Feb. 23, 2012

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