Sandakan
Sandakan is a city of almost 440,000 people in Sabah, Borneo. It is the gateway to Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary and the Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 439,000 residents
- Description: city in Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
- Also known as: “Elopura”, “Samdakan”, and “Sandakan Town”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Agnes Keith House and St. Mary’s Cathedral.
Agnes Keith House
Museum
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Agnes Keith House is a historic house museum in Sandakan District, Sandakan Division, Sabah, Malaysia. The museum is named after Agnes Newton Keith, an American author known for her three autobiographical accounts of life in British North Borneo.
St. Mary’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Mary's Cathedral, or Sandakan Cathedral, is the cathedral and mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sandakan in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia.
Sam Sing Kung Temple
Place of worship
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sam Sing Kung Temple is a Chinese temple in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia. Built in 1887, the temple is the third oldest temple in Sandakan, after Goddess of Mercy Temple and Tam Kung Temple. It is part of the Sandakan Heritage Trail.
Sandakan
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Sandakan Division, Sabah, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
5.8391° or 5° 50′ 21″ northLongitude
118.1159° or 118° 6′ 57″ eastPopulation
439,000Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)IATA airport code
SDKUnited Nations Location Code
MY SDKOpen location code
6PQWR4Q8+M8OpenStreetMap ID
node 974358366OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1734052Wikidata ID
Q137203
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sandakan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سانداكان”
- Arabic: “سنداكن”
- Armenian: “Սանդական”
- Asturian: “Sandakan”
- Basque: “Sandakan”
- Belarusian: “Сандакан”
- Bengali: “সান্ডাকান”
- Bulgarian: “Сандакан”
- Catalan: “Sandakan”
- Cebuano: “Sandakan (lungsod)”
- Cebuano: “Sandakan”
- Chinese: “山打根”
- Chinese: “山打根县”
- Chinese: “山打根縣”
- Czech: “Sandakan”
- Danish: “Sandakan”
- Dutch: “Sandakan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سانداكان”
- Esperanto: “Sandakan”
- Finnish: “Sandakan”
- French: “Sandakan”
- Georgian: “სანდაკანი”
- German: “Sandakan”
- Greek: “Ελοπούρα”
- Greek: “Σαντακάν”
- Gujarati: “સંદકાન”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sân-tá-kîn”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sandakan”
- Hebrew: “סנדקן”
- Hindi: “संडाकां”
- Hungarian: “Sandakan”
- Iban: “Sandakan”
- Indonesian: “Sandakan”
- Irish: “Sandakan”
- Italian: “Sandakan”
- Japanese: “サンダカン”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Sandakan”
- Kannada: “ಸಂಡಕನ್”
- Korean: “산다칸”
- Latvian: “Sandakana”
- Lithuanian: “Sandakanas”
- Malay: “Sandakan”
- Malay: “سنداکن”
- Malayalam: “ശാന്തകൻ”
- Malayalam: “സണ്ടക്കൻ”
- Marathi: “संदकलाटू”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sandakan”
- Norwegian: “Sandakan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sandakan”
- Persian: “سانداکان”
- Polish: “Sandakan”
- Portuguese: “Sandakan”
- Russian: “Сандакан”
- Serbian: “Сандакан”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sandakan”
- Sinhala: “සඳකැන්”
- Spanish: “Sandakan”
- Swedish: “Sandakan”
- Tamil: “சண்டகன்”
- Tamil: “சண்டக்கான்”
- Tamil: “சண்டாக்கான்”
- Telugu: “సండకన్”
- Thai: “ซันดากัน”
- Turkish: “Sandakan”
- Ukrainian: “Сандакан”
- Urdu: “سنداکان”
- Venetian: “Sandakan”
- Vietnamese: “Sandakan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sandakan”
- Yue Chinese: “山打根”
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