Sandakan District Explained

Sandakan District
Native Name:	Daerah Sandakan
Native Name Lang:	ms
Settlement Type:	District
Image Alt:	Sandakan Municipal Council Office
Leader Title:	President (Sandakan Municipal Council)
Leader Name:	Benedict Asmat
Coordinates:	5.8389°N 118.1153°W
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	Malaysia
Subdivision Type1:	State
Subdivision Type2:	Division
Subdivision Name2:	Sandakan
Seat Type:	Capital
Seat:	Sandakan
Area Total Km2:	2266
Population As Of:	2010
Population Total:	396,290

The Sandakan District (Malay: Daerah Sandakan) is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the Sandakan Division which includes the districts of Beluran, Kinabatangan, Sandakan, Telupid, and Tongod. The capital of the district is in Sandakan City.

There are three members of parliament (MPs) representing the three parliamentary constituencies in the district: Libaran (P.184), Batu Sapi (P.185), and Sandakan (P.186).

Demographics

See also: Demographics of Sabah. Sandakan district is the third largest of Sabah's 25 districts, with 396,290 inhabitants after Kota Kinabalu and Tawau.^[1]

See also

• Districts of Malaysia

References

1. Web site: Population by ethnic group, Local Authority area and state, Malaysia. Department of Statistics, Malaysia. 2010. 5 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20120227090315/http://www.statistics.gov.my/portal/download_Population/files/population/04Jadual_PBT_negeri/PBT_Sabah.pdf. 27 February 2012. dead.

Further reading

• Web site: Treacher . W. H . 1891 . British Borneo: sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo . . Singapore, Govt. print. dept . 190 .
• Web site: Rutter . Owen . 1922 . British North Borneo - An Account of its History, Resources and Native Tribes . . Constable & Company Ltd, London . 157 .
• Book: Tregonning , K. G. . 1965 . A History Of Modern Sabah (North Borneo 1881–1963) . registration . University of Malaya Press .

External links

• Sandakan Municipal Council