Lawas
Lawas is a small frontier town in the northeastern corner of Sarawak state in Malaysia. The town is located in a strip of Sarawak territory sandwiched between the Temburong district of Brunei and Malaysia's Sabah state.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Anak lawas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lawas Airport.
Lawas Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Vjikiun, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lawas Airport is a Short Take-off and Landing airport serving Lawas, a town in Limbang Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. A plan has been made to relocate the current airport to a new site, because the current site is considered unsafe.
Lawas
- Type: Town with 38,400 residents
- Description: place in Sarawak, Malaysia
- Categories: city, border city, and locality
- Location: Lawas, Sarawak, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
4.8597° or 4° 51′ 35″ northLongitude
115.4083° or 115° 24′ 30″ eastPopulation
38,400Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)IATA airport code
LWYOpen location code
6PPQVC55+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 369495987OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Lawas” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “لوس”
- Asturian: “Lawas”
- Bengali: “লাওয়াস”
- Catalan: “Lawas”
- Chinese: “拉瓦斯”
- Chinese: “老越”
- Dutch: “Lawas”
- French: “Lawas”
- Iban: “Lawas”
- Indonesian: “Lawas”
- Malay: “Lawas”
- Malay: “Pekan Lawas”
- Malay: “لاوس”
- Tamil: “இலாவாசு”
- Ukrainian: “Лавас”
- Vietnamese: “Lawas”
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