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| Sabah was taken over by the British North Borneo Company in 1881, and became a protectorate of the British Empire with internal affairs still administered by the company in 1888. In 1946 the Company's rule ended and it became the colony of North Borneo until it was admitted into the Malaysian federation in 1963. | |
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1. Dependency status: state in Malysia; known as "The Land Below The Wind" 2. Government type: titutional monarchy (Malysia) 3. Location: Western Europe, island in the Irish Sea, between Great Britain and Ireland 4. Border Countries: Indonesia 5. Climate: equatorial, humid6. Terrain: Sabah is generally mountainous, with the Banjaran Crocker range of central mountains varying in height from about 1,000 metres to 3,000 metres, which at its peak of Mount Kinabalu rises up to 4000 metres, and with several lower ranges of hills near the coasts 7. Area: 73,600 sq km 8. Capital: Kota Kinabalu 9. Administrative divisions: none; Kota Kinabalu, Sandakan (principal seaport state), Tawau 10. Population: 174,000 of inhabitans (1992) 11. Languages: Bahasa Melayu (official), English, Chinese dialects (Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Foochow), Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Panjabi, Thai; note - in addition, in East Malaysia several indigenous languages are spoken, the largest of which are Iban and Kadazan 12. Religions: Islam, Buddhism, Daoism, Hinduism, Christianity, Sikhism; note - in addition, Shamanism is practiced in East Malaysia 13. Currency: ringgit (MYR) |
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