Sarawak
Rejang River
Sibu Division

Sibu

Sibu is a town in , East Malaysia. It's not much of a tourist destination, but it's a common transfer point for boats up the to the small towns of Borneo's interior.
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  • Type: City with 170,000 residents
  • Description: town in Malaysia
  • Also known as: “Fort Brooke” and “Siboe”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wisma Sanyan and Sibu Heritage Centre.

Shopping center
Photo: Benjy8769, CC BY-SA 3.0.
was the tallest building in the state of , from its completion in 2001 to 2019. 's title as Borneo's tallest building was taken by the 33-storey in which was completed in 2016.

Museum
Photo: Cerevisae, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a gallery in Sibu, , .

Buddhist temple
Photo: Cerevisae, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tua Peh Kong Temple in Sibu, , is the oldest Chinese temple in the town with a 7-storey pagoda with the temple history dates back to 1850s.

Sibu

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
United Nations Location Code
MY SBW
Open location code
6PJH7RRG+76
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2065923003
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1735902
Wiki­data ID
Q1048700
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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: “新福州”
  • Chinese: “西布”
  • Chinese: “詩巫”
  • Chinese: “詩巫縣”
  • Chinese: “诗巫”
  • Chinese: “诗巫县”
  • Chinese: “诗巫市”
  • 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・マレーシア”
  • Japanese: “シブ”
  • 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”
  • Marathi: “सिबू”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sĭ-bŭ”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Sibu”
  • Minangkabau: “Sibu”
  • Narom: “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”
  • 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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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 “Sibu”. Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.