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Kota Kinabalu (Sabah, Malaysia)


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  • Codes

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  • Variants

    • Kota Kinabalu (Sabah)
    • Kinabalu (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • Kota Kinabalu (Malaysia)
    • K.K. (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • KK (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • Кота Кинабалу (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • Kinabaluurbo (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • Kutha Kinabalu (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • コタキナバル (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • Kotakinabaru (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • Кота-Кінабалу (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • 亞庇 (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • Yabi (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • Ya bi (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • Kota Kinabalu City (Sabah, Malaysia)
    • Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu (Sabah, Malaysia)

  • Additional Information

    • Descriptor

        Cities and towns

    • Associated Locale

        Malaysia

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  • Earlier Established Forms

  • Sources

    • found: Lapuran tahunan, 1975:p. 1 (Sabah; Kota Kinabalu)
    • found: Sabah in East Malaysia, 1973:p. 8 (Kota Kinabalu, formerly Jesselton)
    • found: BGN(Kota Kinabalu, ppl, 5°59ʹN 116°04ʹE; variants: Jesselton, Kinabalu)
    • found: Wikipedia, Dec. 14, 2010(Kota Kinabalu, formerly Jesselton, is the capital of Sabah state in Malaysia; also capital of the West Coast Division of Sabah; often known as K.K. within Malaysia and internationally; KK; 5°58ʹ17ʺN 116°05ʹ43ʺE)
    • found: Columbia gazetteer of the world online, May 28, 2014(Kota Kinabalu, city; Sabah, Malaysia, in N Borneo, and on a small inlet of the South China Sea. It was founded in 1899 and in 1947 replaced Sandakan as the capital of what was then British North Borneo. Destroyed during World War II and rebuilt. Called Jesselton during the colonial period)
    • found: Wikipedia, June 26, 2014(On 22 December 1967, State Legislative Assembly under Chief Minister Tun Mustapha bin Datu Harun passed a bill renaming Jesselton to Kota Kinabalu. The city was upgraded to city status on 2 February 2000) Bulgarian page (Кота Кинабалу = Kota Kinabalu) Esperanto page (Kinabalu (urbo); also Kinabaluurbo) Javanese page (Kutha Kinabalu) Japanese page (コタキナバル = Kotakinabaru) Ukrainian page (Кота-Кінабалу = Kota-Kinabalu) Chinese page (亞庇 = Yabi; Kota Kinabalu City; Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu)

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  • Change Notes

    • 1978-10-10: new
    • 2017-09-13: revised

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