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Sandakan

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Sandakan (səndəkän`), city (1991 pop. 157,180), Sabah, Malaysia, on N Borneo, on Sandakan Harbor, an inlet of the Sulu Sea. It is the trade hub for an agricultural and lumbering region. Sandakan was the capital of British North Borneo (now Sabah) until 1947, when it was supplanted by Kota Kinabalu Kota Kinabalu , formerly Jesselton, town (1991 pop. 160,122), capital of Sabah, Malaysia, in N Borneo and on a small inlet of the South China Sea. It is the chief port of the state and is connected by road and rail with the interior.
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Sandakan
a port in Malaysia, on the NE coast of Sabah: capital (until 1947) of North Borneo. Pop.: 347 334 (2000)
Sandakan 

a city in Malaysia, in the state of Sabah, in the northeastern part of Kalimantan. Population, 42,400 (1970). A seaport, Sandakan has a freight turnover of more than 2 million tons. It is the center of a major logging region.
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Byline: ANI Kuala Lumpur, Sep 15 (ANI): A Malay grandfather has set his heart on entering the Guinness Book of Records with a 342km trek from Sandakan to the state capital by walking backwards.
Malay granddad hopes to set Guinness world record with 342km trek by Asian News International
Funds were also allocated to build the Sandakan Memorial Park on Borneo Island in 1999, to mark the place where 2,400 Australian and British POWs perished in forced "death marches" at the end of the war.
Fallen WWII soldiers still honoured in Asia's cemeteries by AFP / AFP Global Edition
Saizal Hussin, an official with the marine police unit in Sandakan, in Borneo's eastern Sabah state, told AFP the eggs worth around 5,200 ringgit (almost 1,500 dollars) were smuggled from the southern Philippines.
Malaysian police seize smuggled turtle eggs by AFP / AFP Asian Edition
 
 
 
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