Sibu
Sibu is a town in Sarawak, East Malaysia. It's not much of a tourist destination, but it's a common transfer point for boats up the Rejang River to the small towns of Borneo's interior.
- Type: City with 170,000 residents
- Description: town in Malaysia
- Also known as: “Fort Brooke”, “Siboe”, “シブ・マレーシア”, “新福州”, “西布”, “詩巫縣”, and “诗巫市”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Wisma Sanyan and Tua Pek Kong Temple.
Sibu
- Categories: town, big city, and locality
- Location: Sibu Division, Rejang River, Sarawak, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
2.2906° or 2° 17′ 26″ north
Longitude
111.8256° or 111° 49′ 32″ east
Population
170,000
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
IATA airport code
SBW
UN/LOCODE
MY SBW
Open location code
6PJH7RRG+76
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Sibu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Sibu”
- Arabic: “سيبو”
- Aragonese: “Sibu”
- Arpitan: “Sibu”
- Asturian: “Sibu”
- Basque: “Sibu”
- Bavarian: “Sibu”
- Belarusian: “Сібу”
- Bengali: “সগর”
- Breton: “Sibu”
- Bulgarian: “Сибу”
- Catalan: “Sibu”
- Cebuano: “Sibu”
- Chinese: “詩巫”
- Chinese: “诗巫”
- Chinese: “诗巫县”
- Corsican: “Sibu”
- Croatian: “Sibu”
- Czech: “Sibu”
- Danish: “Sibu”
- Dutch: “Sibu”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيبو”
- Esperanto: “Sibu”
- Estonian: “Sibu”
- Finnish: “Sibu”
- French: “Sibu”
- Friulian: “Sibu”
- Galician: “Sibu”
- German: “Sibu”
- Greek: “Σίμπου”
- Gujarati: “સિબુ”
- Hindi: “सिबु”
- Hungarian: “Sibu”
- Iban: “Sibu”
- Icelandic: “Sibu”
- Ido: “Sibu”
- Indonesian: “Sibu”
- Interlingua: “Sibu”
- Interlingue: “Sibu”
- Irish: “Sibu”
- Italian: “Sibu”
- Japanese: “シブ”
- Jèrriais: “Sibu”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Sibu”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಬು”
- Kongo: “Sibu”
- Korean: “시부”
- Latvian: “Sibu”
- Ligurian: “Sibu”
- Limburgan: “Sibu”
- Lithuanian: “Sibu”
- Low German: “Sibu”
- Luxembourgish: “Sibu”
- Malagasy: “Sibu”
- Malay: “Sibu”
- Malay: “سيبو”
- Marathi: “सिबू”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Sĭ-bŭ”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Sibu”
- Minangkabau: “Sibu”
- Neapolitan: “Sibu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sibu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sibu”
- Norwegian: “Sibu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sibu”
- Persian: “سیبو”
- Picard: “Sibu”
- Piemontese: “Sibu”
- Polish: “Sibu”
- Portuguese: “Sibu”
- Romanian: “Sibu”
- Romansh: “Sibu”
- Russian: “Сибу”
- Sardinian: “Sibu”
- Scots: “Sibu”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Sibu”
- Serbian: “Sibu”
- Sicilian: “Sibu”
- Silesian: “Sibu”
- Sinhala: “සිබු”
- Slovak: “Sibu”
- Slovenian: “Sibu”
- Spanish: “Sibu”
- Swahili: “Sibu”
- Swedish: “Sibu”
- Swiss German: “Sibu”
- Tamil: “சிபு”
- Telugu: “శిబూ”
- Thai: “ซีบู”
- Turkish: “Sibu”
- Ukrainian: “Сібу”
- Urdu: “سیبو”
- Venetian: “Sibu”
- Vietnamese: “Sibu, Sarawak”
- Vietnamese: “Sibu”
- Vlaams: “Sibu”
- Volapük: “Sibu”
- Walloon: “Sibu”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sibu, Sarawak”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sibu”
- Welsh: “Sibu”
- Wolof: “Sibu”
- Yue Chinese: “詩巫”
- Zulu: “Sibu”
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