Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Singkawang City, Indonesia

Singkawang City or San Keuw Jong (Hanzi: 山口 洋 Hanyu Pinyin: Shānkǒu Yang) is a town (municipality) in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.
walnya Singkawang is a village part of the Sultanate of Sambas, Singkawang village as a haven traders and gold miners from Monterado. Miners and merchants who came mostly from China, before they headed Monterado first rested in Singkawang, while the gold miners in Monterado long often rest on Singkawang to remove Singkawang kepenatannya and also as a place of transit transportation of gold mining (gold dust ). At that time, they (the Chinese) called Singkawang with San Keuw Jong (Hakka language), they assumed from the geographical side that Singkawang directly adjacent to the Natuna sea and there are mountains and rivers, where water flows from the mountains through the rivers to the sea estuary . Seeing the development of Singkawang assessed by those who are quite promising, so that the miners are switching professions there are farmers and traders in Singkawang that ultimately these miners lived and settled in Singkawang.

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