Kunak

Kunak
Coordinates	4 ° 41 ′  N , 118 ° 15 ′  E Coordinates: 4 ° 41 ′  N , 118 ° 15 ′  E
Location of the city within the Kunak district
Symbols
coat of arms
Basic data
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
Residents	13,823 (2010)

Kunak is a city in the Malaysian state of Sabah . Kunak is located on the east coast in the north of the island of Borneo in Darvel Bay, which is open to the Sulawesi Sea . The city belongs to the administrative district of the same name Kunak district and is 121 kilometers south of Sandakan as the crow flies. Kunak is part of the Tawau Division area to which the Kunak , Lahad Datu , Semporna and Tawau and Papar districts belong.

history

Kampung Tingkayu near Kunak is the location of various hand axes from the late Pleistocene , which means that the first human activities in eastern Borneo can be dated back to 30,000 years before the Common Era .

The naming of Kunak is based on a ship of the same name belonging to the Straits Steamship Company , which anchored in Darvel Bay in the 1960s. This also means that today's Kunak only got its name after 1960.

Demographics

The population of Kunak is 13,823 people according to the last census in 2010. It consists mostly of Bajau and Bugis . As in many other cities in 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.

economy

The main source of income for many residents is the planting of oil palms . A settlement for repatriates from the Cocos Islands is located a few kilometers outside the city near the Giram Oil Palm Estate (Golden Hope Berhad) plantation .

Infrastructure

The ferry pier and the "wet market" for fresh agricultural and maritime products are located in Pengkalan Kunak , about five kilometers from the city.

In 2002 a public hospital with 76 beds was built in the city. Around the same time, a new expressway was opened between Kunak and Semporna.

See also

• Kunak district

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.

Web links

Commons : Kunak  - collection of images

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Census 2010 for Sabah (PDF file; 1.77 MB), page 140 ed. from the Bureau of Statistics, Malaysia
2. ↑ Ian Glover, Peter S. Bellwood: Southeast Asia: from prehistory to history Routledge Shorton 2004, pp. 16-17
3. ↑ Background information on the Kunak district (Malaysian) ; Accessed January 16, 2012