BANDER LINGAH, or LINGA  , a

town of Persia on the northern shore of the Persian Gulf and about 300 M. by sea from Bushire, in 26° 33' N., 54° 54' E . Pop. about 1o,000 . It forms part of the administrative divisions of the " Persian Gulf ports," whose governor resides at Bushire . The annual value of the exports and imports from and into Bander Lingah from 1890 to 1905 averaged about £800,000, but nearly half of that amount is represented by pearls which pass in transit from the fisheries on the Arab coast to Bombay . Like many other Persian Gulf ports, Bander Lingah was for many generations a hereditary patrimony of the Sheikh of an Arab tribe, in this case the Juvasmi tribe, and it was only in 1898 that the Arabs were expelled from the place by a Persian force . It is the chief port for the Persian province of Laristan (under Fars), and has a thriving trade with Bahrein and the Arab coast . It has a British post office, and the steamers of the British India Company call there weekly . Of the 133,000 tons of shipping which in 1905 entered the port 104,500 were British .