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Kudat
Sabah, Malaysia · Asia
About Kudat
Kudat sits on the route: 50 minutes from Bandau.
Kudat is in Sabah, Malaysia, with about 32,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Bandau, about 42 km away.
Kudat (Malay: Pekan Kudat) is the capital of the Kudat District in the Kudat Division of Sabah, Malaysia. Its population was estimated to be around 29,025 in 2010. It is located on the Kudat Peninsula, about 190 kilometres (120 mi) north of Kota Kinabalu, the state capital, and is near the northernmost point ofRead more
Borneo. It is the largest town in the heartland of the Rungus people which is a sub-ethnic group of the majority Kadazan-Dusun race and is therefore a major centre of Rungus culture. It is also notable for being one of the first parts of Sabah to be settled by Chinese Malaysians, particularly from the Hakka dialect group. It is the northernmost Malaysian city.
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Kudat is in Sabah, Malaysia, about 42 km from Bandau.
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- Population
- 32,393
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- Malaysia
- Region
- Sabah
- Timezone
- Asia/Kuching
- Coordinates
- 6.8873, 116.8236
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