Bangka island is a province with Belitung Island. Bangka is located just east of Sumatra, Bangka separated from the north of it lies in the South China Sea to the east, Gaspar Straits, the island of Belitung, and South Sea of Java. The size is about 12,000 km ². Most of the geographical face of the island is the lower plains, swamps, small hills, beautiful beaches, fields of white pepper and mineral extraction of tin.
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 was occupied by the Japanese from February 1942 to August 1945. It became part of independent Indonesia in 1949. The island, together with neighboring Belitung, was formerly part of South Sumatra (Sumatera Selatan) province, but in 2000 the two islands became the new province of Bangka-Belitung.
CULTURE FROM BANGKA BELITUNG
Tincak Gambus Culture dance
Taluput Culture dance
