Tawau

Tawau
Tawau
	Frae top left: Tawau toun skyline, Konfrontasi Memorial, Tawau Mercat, Al-Kauthar Mosque, Tawau auld shop hooses an Tawau Airport Lobby Haw.
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	Location o Tawau in Sabah
	Tawau Tawau is locatit in Malaysie
	Coordinates: 4°17′53″N 117°52′59″E / 4.29806°N 117.88306°E
Kintra	Malaysie
State	Sabah
Diveesion	Tawau
Govrenment
• Cooncil Preses	Ismail Mayakob
Area
• Total	6125 km2 (2365 sq mi)
Population (2010)
• Total	397,673
Time zone	UTC+8 (MST)
• Summer (DST)	No observit
Website	mpt.sabah.gov.my

Tawau is the admeenistrative centre o Tawau Diveesion, in the Malaysie states o Sabah on the island o Borneo. Tawau haes a population o 397,673^{[note 1]} an become the third lairgest toun in Sabah efter Kota Kinabalu an Sandakan.^[1] It is locatit on the coast o the Celebes Sea at the Cowie Bay.^{[note 2]}

References

1 2 "Population Distribution by Local Authority Areas and Mukims, 2010 (page 1 & 8)" (PDF). Department of Statistics, Malaysia. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 5 Februar 2015. Retrieved 6 August 2013.

1 2 In addeetion tae the offeecial figurs o the 2010 Census, thare are decades a lairge nummer o illegal immigrants frae Indonesie an the Philippines. The measurs implementit in previous years, for example, in 1981 retroactive legalization aggravatit the problem probably acause they put a unwantit signal tae the influx o ither illegal. (Goodlet, page 248 and page 299)
↑ Cowie Bay in the early 19t century are kent as Kalabakong Bay. Sometimes it is cried Sibuco Bay an aw.