Tenom District

Tenom District
Coordinates	5 ° 8 ' N , 115 ° 57' E Coordinates: 5 ° 8 ' N , 115 ° 57' E
	Location of Tenom District and City
Basic data
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
ISO 3166-2	MY-12
surface	2238 km²
Residents	55,553 (2010)
density	24.8 Ew. / km²
Website	www.sabah.gov.my/md.tnm/
politics
District Officer	Siriman ben MF Basir
	District ; Administration Building (Pejabat Daerah Tenom)

View over the city of Tenom and the surrounding area

The Tenom District is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah . The administrative seat is the city of Tenom . The district is part of the Interior Division area which includes the districts of Beaufort , Keningau , Kuala Penyu , Nabawan , Sipitang , Tambunan and Tenom. In the south the district borders on Kalimantan Indonesia .

Demographics

The population is made up of the ethnic groups of the Murut (52%), the Han Chinese (8%), the Malay (4%) and the Kadazan - Dusun (12%) as well as a small proportion of other ethnic groups such as Indonesians and Filipinos . The majority of the almost 5,000 Chinese, descendants of immigrants from Longchuan in Guangdong , come from the Hakka ethnic group .

The district's population according to the 2010 census is 55,553.

history

The name "Tenom" as an independent district designation only appeared between 1904 and 1906, after the completion of the railway line from Beaufort to Melapap.

The area of what is now the Tenom District has been officially under British administration since 1900. The first administrator was MCM Weedon.

Administrative headquarters

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

List of District Officers in Tenom

Surname	In office from	In office until
MCM Weedon	1900
Roderick McClean	1963	1964
Mohd Yassin bin Haji Hashim	1964	1965
RWH Ried	1965	1965
JSOakley	1965	1965
Herman J Luping	1965	1966
Matiassin bin Surai	1967	1968
Alexander Osmond Yap	1970	1973
Abdullah bin Hasanat	1970	1973
Joseph Lanjuat	1973	1974
Mohd Railey am Jeffrey	1974	1975
Mohammed bin Haji Abdul Rahman	1980	1982
Haji Adenan bin Haji Mohd Yusof	1982	1984
Haji Juhamat am lntang	1985	1985
Mohammed bin Haji Abdul Rahman	1986	1990
Bobbey Ahfang bin Suan	1990	1994
Michel Emban	April 1994
Norbert Lee @ Robert Lee	April 1994	2000
Amat Mohd Yusof	Jun 2000	October 24, 2005
Faimin fireplace	October 24, 2005
Siriman ben MF Basir	officiating

Individual evidence

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