Tuaran District

Tuaran District
Coordinates	6 ° 11 '  N , 116 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 6 ° 11 '  N , 116 ° 14'  E
Location of Tuaran District and City
Basic data
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
surface	1166 km²
Residents	102,411 (2010)
density	87.8  Ew. / km²
Website	www.sabah.gov.my/pd.trn/
politics
District Officer	Madiyem Layapan
District Office Tuaran (Pejabat Daerah Tuaran)

Tuaran District Authority House

The Tuaran District is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah . The administrative seat is the city ​​of Tuaran . The Tuaran District is part of the West Coast Division area which includes the Kota Kinabalu , Ranau , Kota Belud , Tuaran, Penampang , Putatan, and Papar districts .

Demographics

According to the last census in 2010, the population of the Tuaran district is 102,411 and consists of approximately equal parts of Dusun (42%) and Bajau (34%) and a considerable proportion of Chinese (4%) and Malays (4%). As in many other districts 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.

Administrative headquarters

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

Structure of the district

The district is divided into three sub-districts or regions (kawasan) : Sulaman, Kiulu and Tamparuli. These are in turn assigned to five or six municipal administrations (mukim) :

• Kawasan SULAMAN
  • Mukim Berungis
  • Mukim Mengkabong
  • Mukim Tambalang
  • Mukim Serusop
  • Mukim Indai

• Kawasan KIULU
  • Mukim Ulu
  • Mukim Tengah
  • Mukim Lembah
  • Mukim Pantai
  • Mukim Nabalu
  • Mukim Pekan

• Kawasan TAMPARULI
  • Mukim Tamparuli
  • Mukim Tenghilan
  • Mukim topocon
  • Mukim Mangkaladoi
  • Mukim Tuaran Bandar

List of District Officers in Tuaran

Surname	In office from	In office until
JP Rutherford	1949
H. George	1949	1949
JPC Burbroke	1949	1951
EA Pascoe	1951	1952
IC Peck	1952	1953
GF Douglas	1953	1954
H. George	1955	1955
M. Pike	1955	1956
Leong Ah Koon	1956	1958
DW Eisenhauer	1958	1959
John D. Dusing	1959	1960
JAG Roberts	1960	1962
Peter L. Regis	1964	1964
Goh Bee Leng - Memangku	1964	1964
Peter L. Regis	1964	1964
Paul Lai Kui Seong	1964	1967
Dzulkifli Abdul Hamid	1967
Dato Bistari Dato Jinurain	1967	1968
AO Pangiran Up	1968	1970
Mohd. Yusuf Yahya	1970	1973
Hj. Pauzi Kou	1973	1974
Hj. Abdullah Hj. Mohd. Arshad	1974	1974
Hj. Shamsudin Liew Syn Su	1974	1975
S. Mohd. Abdillah	1975	1976
Mohd. Zulfikar	1976	1978
Patrick Micheal	1978	1980
Masidi Manjun	1980	1982
Yahya Ahmad Shah	1982
Abdul Rahman LO	1985
Jahid Jahim	1982	1988
Ariffin Gadait	1989	1992
Udin Dullah	1992	1996
Hj. Uda Hj. Sulai	1996	1997
Awang Shamsi Hj. Jamih	1997	2010
Madiyem Layapan	Sept. 1, 2010	officiating

See also

• Local government in Sabah

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

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