Kunak
Sign in to saveKunak () is the capital of the Kunak District in the Tawau Division of Sabah, Malaysia. Its population was estimated to be around 13,823 in 2010. The population consists mainly of Bajau and Suluk peoples. There is also a sizeable Chinese minority, involved in running many of the shops in downtown Kunak as well as the planting of oil palms in the outskirts.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in MY, across 2 mapped points.
Within Vinony's link graph, Kunak is referenced by 138 other articles, and connects out to Sabah, Sook and Malaysia.
Vinony files it under Kunak District and Towns in Sabah.
Its subject is documented across 10 Wikipedia language editions.
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Place details
- Locality
- Kampung Jaya Baru
- Region
- Sabah
- Country
- Malaysia
- Population
- 13,823
- Timezone
- Asia/Kuching
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kunak
- Settlement.native_name
- Pekan Kunak
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ms
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town and district capital
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kunak Sabah TownViews-01.jpg
- Settlement.image_alt
- A roundabout in Kunak
- Settlement.image_caption
- A roundabout in Kunak.
- Settlement.image_map
- SabahDistricts-Kunak-pp.png
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Division
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tawau
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Kunak
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2010
- Settlement.population_total
- 13,823
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Kunak Sabah TownViews-01.jpg
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- Kunak
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Encyclopedic overview
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Kunak () is the capital of the Kunak District in the Tawau Division of Sabah, Malaysia. Its population was estimated to be around 13,823 in 2010. The population consists mainly of Bajau and Suluk peoples. There is also a sizeable Chinese minority, involved in running many of the shops in downtown Kunak as well as the planting of oil palms in the outskirts.
== Education == Kunak has three main secondary schools: SMK Kunak Jaya, SMK Kunak and SMK Madai. It is also home to a Chinese primary school, SRJK(C) Pai Sheng, and several Malay-medium primary schools including SK Kunak 1, SK Kunak Jaya and SK Ladang Binuang. A resettlement scheme for Cocos Islanders is situated a few kilometres away, near the Giram Oil Palm Estate (run by Sime Darby Berhad). A jetty is situated about five km from the town, in an area named Pengkalan Kunak. A single road lined by wooden shophouses (possibly a squatter colony) leads to the jetty and wet market. In 2002, a 76-bed government hospital was built in the town. At around the same time, a new highway linking Kunak to the town of Semporna was also opened.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kunak” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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