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Lahad Datu

Lahad Datu is a city located in eastern , . The city is home to a population of some 28,000 people, with about 200,000 people in the district. It is surrounded by cocoa and palm oil plantations.
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  • Type: Town with 200,000 residents
  • Description: city in Sabah, Malaysia
  • Also known as: “Lahad Datu Town”
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lahad Datu Airport.

Aerodrome
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an located in the southeastern part of the state of . The airport, which is situated approximately 1 km from downtown Lahad Datu, serves the town of Lahad Datu and its neighbouring districts such as , FELDA Sahabat, and .

Lahad Datu

Latitude
5.0216° or 5° 1′ 18″ north
Longitude
118.3276° or 118° 19′ 39″ east
Population
200,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
LDU
United Nations Location Code
MY LDU
Open location code
6PQW28CH+J2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1081974263
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1733953
Wiki­data ID
Q1018501
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Lahad Datu” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “لهد داتو”
  • Asturian: “Lahad Datu”
  • Balinese: “Lahad Datu”
  • Bengali: “লাহাদ দাতু”
  • Chinese: “拿笃”
  • Chinese: “拿笃县”
  • Chinese: “拿篤”
  • Chinese: “拿篤縣”
  • Dutch: “Lahad Datu”
  • Esperanto: “Lahad Datu”
  • Estonian: “Lahad Datu”
  • French: “Lahad Datu”
  • German: “Lahad Datu”
  • Indonesian: “Lahad Datu”
  • Irish: “Lahad Datu”
  • Japanese: “ラハ・ダトゥ”
  • Japanese: “ラハダトゥ”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Lahad Datu”
  • Malay: “Lahad Datu”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lahad Datu”
  • Norwegian: “Lahad Datu”
  • Persian: “لاهاد داتو (مالزی)”
  • Persian: “لاهاد داتو”
  • Polish: “Lahad Datu”
  • Russian: “Лахад-Дату”
  • Spanish: “Lahad Datu”
  • Tamil: “லகாட் டத்து”
  • Turkish: “Lahad Datu”
  • Turkish: “Lahat Datu”
  • Urdu: “لاحد داتو”
  • Venetian: “Lahad Datu”
  • Vietnamese: “Lahad Datu”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Lahad Datu”. Photo: LDyou2, CC BY-SA 4.0.