Sandakan "The Nature City"

     

This is a map of Sabah State

                                                    Sandakan map

                       

        Sandakan is one of the major towns in Sabah and is the second largest city in the state. Sandakan Bay Sandakan position makes it a good port. Sandakan is on the east coast of the island of borneo and has a population of 479.121 people (2009). Sandakan is a city in the country to the east of Malaysia's most aspects of the latitude and the most to the city located east of the state. Sandakan is located about 1.900 kilometers from Kuala Lumpur, thr capital of Malaysia, and only about 28 kilometers from the border with the Philippines. Sandakan has existed as a residence since 1948.

 
          Sandakan is a captivating town with its very own charm, friendly people and many fabulous places to eat seafood. Sandakan has also its own intriguing history and traces its roots back to the early 1870s, when William Clarke Cowie, a Scottish adventurer and engineer was trading guns and ammunition with the Sultan of Sulu so that he could protect his territories from  the Spanish. In return, the Sultan granted Cowie permission to settle on Pulau Timbang in the Sandakan Bay, where there was a small Suluk Village. Cowie called his base Sandakan, deriving the word from Suluk "SANDA" and the suffix "KAN", and Sandakan translates roughly into "the place that was pawned".

•  City- 46 square miles, or 12.000 ha.
• Semi-urban areas-56 square miles, or 14.500 ha.
• Rural and sea-773 square miles, or 200.124ha.

     

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