Kunak

Coordinates: 4°41′00″N 118°15′00″E / 4.68333°N 118.25000°E / 4.68333; 118.25000
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Kunak
Pekan Kunak
Town and
District
Kunak
Population
 (2010)
 • Total13,823

Kunak (

Bugis peoples. There is also a sizeable Chinese
minority, involved in running many of the shops in downtown Kunak as well as the planting of oil palms in the outskirts.

Education

Kunak has three main secondary schools: SMK Kunak Jaya, SMK Kunak and SMK Madai. It is also home to a Chinese primary school, SRJK(C) Pai Sheng, and several Malay-medium primary schools including SK Kunak 1, SK Kunak Jaya and SK Ladang Binuang. A resettlement scheme for Cocos Islanders is situated a few kilometres away, near the Giram Oil Palm Estate (run by Sime Darby Berhad). A jetty is situated about five km from the town, in an area named Pengkalan Kunak. A single road lined by wooden shophouses (possibly a squatter colony) leads to the jetty and wet market. In 2002, a 76-bed government hospital was built in the town. At around the same time, a new highway linking Kunak to the town of Semporna was also opened.

Gallery

  • One of the old shoplots in Kunak.
    One of the old shoplots in Kunak.
  • Sime Darby palm oil storage tanks in Kunak.
    Sime Darby palm oil storage tanks in Kunak.
  • Sunset in Kunak
    Sunset in Kunak

References

  1. ^ "Population by ethnic group, Local Authority area and state, Malaysia" (PDF). Department of Statistics, Malaysia. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2017.

External links

Media related to Kunak at Wikimedia Commons


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