Sandakan

Sandakan is a city of almost 440,000 people in , . It is the gateway to and the Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary.
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  • City with about 396,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 10 metres (30 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code SDK
  • …was formerly known as “Elopura”
  • Description: city in Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia
  • Also known as
    “Samdakan”
    “Sandakan Town”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Agnes Keith House and St. Mary’s Cathedral.
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is a historic house museum…
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St. Mary's Cathedral, or Sandakan Cathedral, is the…
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is a Chinese temple in Sandakan, , .

Sandakan

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Latitude
5.8391° or 5° 50′ 21″ north
Longitude
118.1159° or 118° 6′ 57″ east
UN/LOCODE
MY SDK
Open location code
6PQWR4Q8+M8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 974358366
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1734052
Wiki­data ID
Q137203

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Sandakan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانداكان”
  • Arabic: “سنداكن”
  • Aragonese: “Sandakan”
  • 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: “ಸಂಡಕಾನ್”
  • 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: “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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