Kunak
Kunak Town
Pekan Kunak | |
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District Capital | |
![]() A roundabout in Kunak. | |
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Coordinates: 4°41′00″N 118°15′00″E / 4.68333°N 118.25000°ECoordinates: 4°41′00″N 118°15′00″E / 4.68333°N 118.25000°E | |
Country | ![]() |
State | ![]() |
Division | Tawau |
District | Kunak |
Population (2010) | |
• Total | 13,823 |
Kunak (Malay: Pekan 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.[1] The population consists mainly of Bajau and Bugis 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.
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.
Gallery[]
One of the old shoplots in Kunak.
Sime Darby palm oil storage tanks in Kunak.
Sunset in Kunak
References[]
- ^ "Population by ethnic group, Local Authority area and state, Malaysia" (PDF). Department of Statistics, Malaysia. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
External links[]
Media related to Kunak at Wikimedia Commons
- Towns in Sabah
- Sabah geography stubs