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In 1988, Kuching was chartered as the first city in East Malaysia. Klang is the most recent municipality in the country declared a city, doing so on 5 February 2024. There are also highly urbanised and populated areas across the country that did not attain city status, but are sometimes referred as cities.
Sarawak (/ s ə ˈ r ɑː w ɒ k / sə-RAH-wok, Malay:) is a state [18] [19] of Malaysia.The largest among the 13 states, with an area almost equal to that of Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak is located in East Malaysia in northwest Borneo, and is bordered by the Malaysian state of Sabah to the northeast, Kalimantan (the Indonesian portion of Borneo) to the south, and Brunei in the north.
Malaysia designates all populated regions into three categories: a district, municipality, or city. While district boundaries are limited to individual state-drawn district boundaries, some municipalities and cities are made up of several smaller component districts whose elevated status forms a local government.
The small independent nation of Brunei comprises two enclaves in Sarawak. To the south and southeast is the Indonesian portion of Borneo, Kalimantan. [2] East Malaysia lies to the east of Peninsular Malaysia (also known as the States of Malaya), the part of the country on the Malay Peninsula. The two are separated by the South China Sea. [3] [4]
Bekenu experienced floods in February 1966, January 1967, January 1972, January 1981, [4] June 2020, [5] October 2021, [6] October 2022, [7] and January 2023. [8]The most serious flood in Bekenu was in 1962 when shops were flooded up to the first floor and people had to be rescued by fishermen in rowing boats.
Malaysia's border with Thailand is located to the north of Peninsula Malaysia and runs between the Straits of Malacca on the west and the Gulf of Thailand/South China Sea in the east. The Malaysian states of Kedah , Kelantan , Perak and Perlis border the Thai provinces of Narathiwat , Satun , Songkhla and Yala .
Limbang is a border town and the capital of Limbang District in the Limbang Division of northern Sarawak, East Malaysia, on the island of Borneo.This district area is 3,978.10 square kilometres, [2] and population (year 2020 census) was 56,900.
Miri (/ ˈ m ɪr i /) is a coastal city in north-eastern Sarawak, Malaysia, located near the border of Brunei, on the island of Borneo.The city covers an area of 997.43 square kilometres (385.11 sq mi), [2] located 798 kilometres (496 mi) northeast of Kuching [6] and 329 kilometres (204 mi) southwest of Kota Kinabalu. [7]