Bangka

(bäŋ′kä)

island of Indonesia, off the SE coast of Sumatra: tin-mining center: 4,600 sq mi (11,914 sq km)

See Bangka in American Heritage Dictionary 4

or Ban·ka

An island of western Indonesia in the Java Sea separated from Sumatra by the narrow Strait of Bangka. Tin was discovered here in the early 1700s.

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