Lahad Datu District

Lahad Datu District
Coordinates	5 ° 2 ′  N , 118 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 5 ° 2 ′  N , 118 ° 20 ′  E
Location of Lahad Datu District and City
Basic data
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
Residents	199,830 (2010)
Website	www.sabah.gov.my/pd.ld/
politics
District Officer	Zulkifli Nasir

The Lahad Datu District is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah . The administrative seat is the city of Lahad Datu . The district is part of the Tawau Division area to which the Kunak , Lahad Datu, Semporna and Tawau districts belong. The city is located in the east of Sabah, Malaysia on the north side of Darvel Bay .

Demographics

The population of the district is 199,830 people according to the last census. 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. Lahad Datu is home to a significant number of Bajau and Malays from the Cocos Islands who settled here in the 1950s when the Cocos Islands became part of Australia .

The population of the district is distributed among the larger parishes and the entire area of ​​the district as follows:

Lahad Datu District	199,830 inhabitants
Lahad Datu	27,887
Tungku	1085
rest of the area	170,858

Administrative headquarters

The administrative seat of the district is the city of Lahad Datu .

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. ↑ ^{a b} 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  
2. ↑ Census 2010 for Sabah ( Memento of the original from November 14, 2013 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; 1.9 MB), ed. from the Bureau of Statistics, Malaysia