Kunak District

Kunak District Daerah Kunak
District
Kunak District office.
Seal
Coordinates:4°41′00″N118°15′00″E
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
Division	Tawau
Capital	Kunak
Government
• District Officer	Susilo Sumarto
Area
• Total	1,134 km2(438 sq mi)
Population (2010)
• Total	61,094
Website	ww2.sabah.gov.my/md.kunak/ ww2.sabah.gov.my/pd.knk/

Map of Kunak District

TheKunak District(Malay:Daerah Kunak) is anadministrative districtin theMalaysianstate ofSabah,part of theTawau Divisionwhich includes the districts of Kunak,Lahad Datu,SempornaandTawau.The capital of the district is inKunak Town.Kunak district were part of Lahad Datu before 1990.

Demographics

See also:Demographics of Sabah

According to the last census in 2010, the population of Kunak district is estimated to be around 61,094 inhabitants.As in other districts of Sabah, there are a significant number of illegal immigrants from the nearby southernPhilippines,mainly from theSulu ArchipelagoandMindanao,many of whom are not included in the population statistics.

Gallery

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  Datuk Zainal Gunong Mosque.
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  Kunak Basel Church.
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  St. Peter Catholic Church.
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  Kunak District road.

See also

• Districts of Malaysia

Further reading

• Treacher, W. H (1891)."British Borneo: sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo".University of California Libraries.Singapore, Govt. print. dept. p. 190.
• Rutter, Owen (1922)."British North Borneo - An Account of its History, Resources and Native Tribes".Cornell University Libraries.Constable & Company Ltd, London. p. 157.
• Tregonning, K. G. (1965).A History Of Modern Sabah (North Borneo 1881–1963).University of Malaya Press.

External links

• Media related toKunak Districtat Wikimedia Commons
• (in Malay)Kunak District Council
• (in Malay)Kunak District Office