Pitas District

Pitas District
Coordinates	6 ° 43 ' N , 117 ° 4' E Coordinates: 6 ° 43 ' N , 117 ° 4' E
Basic data
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
ISO 3166-2	MY-12
surface	1,419.4 km²
Residents	37,808 (2010)
density	26.6 Ew. / km²
Website	www.sabah.gov.my/pitas/v2/
politics
District Officer	Sapdin Ibrahim
	District Office Pitas

The Pitas District is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah . The administrative seat is the city of Pitas . The district is part of the Kudat Division area to which the Kudat , Pitas and Kota Marudu districts belong.

Demographics

According to the last census in 2010, the population of the district is 37,808 and consists mainly of Rungus , a subgroup of the Kadazan and Orang Sungai (which also include the Tambanuas ). As in many other regions of Sabah, there are significant numbers of illegal immigrants from the nearby Philippines , especially from Sulu and Mindanao , who are not recorded in the population statistics. The city of Pitas has only 895 inhabitants, the remaining part of the total population is distributed over the 194 settlements ( kampung ) in the district.

Administrative headquarters

The administrative seat of the district is the city of Pitas.

Pitas gained full district status in 1975. The 194 settlements in the district are grouped into the six mukim Kalumpang, Pinggan-Pinggan, Telaga, Dandun, Pantai and Mapan-Mapan.

politics

Pitas belongs to the constituency P.167 ( Kudat ) and is represented in the Malaysian Parliament by YB Datuk Abd. Rahim Bakri (BN-UMNO). In the Legislative Assembly of Sabah ( Dewan Undangan Negeri Sabah ) the district is represented by YB Datuk Masrani Parman (BN-UMNO) from the constituency of Pitas N.3.

Web links

Commons : Pitas District - Collection of Images

literature

KG Tregonning: A History Of Modern Sabah (North Borneo 1881-1963) , 2nd edition, University of Malaya Press, Kuala Lumpur, 1965, reprint 1967.
Owen Rutter: British North Borneo - An Account of its History, Ressources and Native Tribes , Constable & Company Ltd, London, 1922.
WH Treacher: British Borneo - Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan and North Borneo , Singapore, Government print department, 1891.

Individual evidence

↑ Population Distribution by Local Authority Areas and Mukims, 2010 (Census 2010) ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 368 kB), page 369 @1@ 2
↑ ^a ^b District description on the Pitas website ( memento of the original dated February 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Accessed February 18, 2012 @1@ 2

[census2010-1] Population Distribution by Local Authority Areas and Mukims, 2010 (Census 2010) ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 368 kB), page 369 @1@ 2

[do-2] District description on the Pitas website ( memento of the original dated February 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Accessed February 18, 2012 @1@ 2