Pangkalpinang
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay Pangkal Pinang, from compound of pengkal (“base”) and pinang (“betel nut, Areca catechu”).
Proper noun
Pangkalpinang
- Pangkal Pinang (a city, the provincial capital of the Bangka Belitung Islands, Indonesia)
Further reading
- Kota Pangkalpinang on the Indonesian Wikipedia.Wikipedia id
- “Pangkalpinang”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016