Pangkal Pinang

Pangkal Pinang, is the biggest city on the Indonesian island of Bangka and the capital of the area of the Bangka Belitung Islands. On Bangka's east drift, the city is partitioned into seven regions and has 42 wards. In the 2010 registration, it had a zone of 118.41 square kilometers and a populace of 328,167. The city's populace thickness is around 2,800 for each square kilometer. Muhammad Irwansyah is the leader; he was gone before by Zulkarnain Karim, who served for two terms. The Rangkui River separates the city into two sections, and Jalan Merdeka is its geographic focus.

Pangkal Pinang's populace comprises to a great extent of ethnic Malays and Chinese Hakka who originated from Guangzhou. There are additionally littler settler networks of other ethnic gatherings, for example, Batak and Minangkabau. Tourist spots in the city incorporate the Timah Museum, a Chinese sanctuary, the Cathedral of St. Joseph, the Bangka Botanical Garden, and the Pasir Padi shoreline.

As a component of Srivijaya, Pangkalpinang was occupied by Hindus. Notwithstanding being a domain of Sriwijaya, it was additionally a region of Majapahit and the Mataram Kingdom. In each of the three kingdoms, Pangkalpinang got little consideration regardless of its vicinity to universal transportation courses and turned into an alcove for privateers going after boats in the South China Sea.