Ranau is a town located in West Coast Division, in the center of Sabah, east Malaysia on the island of Borneo at an altitude of 1176m above sea level. Its population was estimated to be around 70,649 in 2000, almost entirely ethnic Dusun. It is on the main road connecting Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan. It is one of the gateways to Mount KinabaluNational Park and to Poring Hot Springs. West Coast Division is an administrative division of Sabah, east Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. ... State motto: Sabah Maju Jaya State anthem: Sabah Tanah Airku Capital Kota Kinabalu Ruling party Barisan Nasional - Yang di-Pertua Negeri Ahmadshah Abdullah - Ketua Menteri Musa Aman History - Brunei Sultanate 19th century - British North Borneo 1882 - Japanese occupation 1941-1945 - British control 1946 - Accession into Malaysia 1963 Area - Total 76... Borneo (left) and Sulawesi. ... Dusun is the name of a tribe or ethnic and linguistic group in the Malaysian state of Sabah. ... Nickname: KK Location in Malaysia Country Malaysia State Sabah Establishment Granted city status on 2nd February 2000 Mayor Datuk Illiyas Ibrahim Area - City km² Population - City (2000) 470,000 (City), 900,000 (Metropolitan) approx. ... Sandakan as viewed from the English Tea House Sandakan is the second-largest town in the state of Sabah, East Malaysia, on the north-eastern of island of Borneo. ... Mount Kinabalu (Malay: Gunung Kinabalu) is a prominent mountain in South East Asia. ... Kinabalu National Park or Taman Negara Kinabalu in Malay, established as one of the first national parks of Malaysia in 1964, is Malaysias first World Heritage site designated by UNESCO in December 2000 for its outstanding universal values and the role as one of the most important biological sites... ÉPoring is a Kadazandusun word for the bamboo species growing in the area. ...
The Kundasang War Memorial Display Garden has plants and flowers from Borneo, Australia and Great Britain. Ranau was the terminus of the infamous Sandakan Death Marches of World War II. The Sandakan Death Marches are the most infamous incident in series of events which resulted in the deaths of more than 6,000 Javanese civilian slave labourers and Allied prisoners of war, held by the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II, at prison camps in... Combatants Allied Powers: United Kingdom France Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Axis Powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Charles de Gaulle Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33...
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