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” and “Siboe”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wisma Sanyan and Tua Pek Kong Temple.
Wisma Sanyan
Shopping center
Wisma Sanyan was the tallest building in the state of Sarawak, Malaysia from its completion in 2001 to 2019. Wisma Sanyan's title as Borneo's tallest building was taken by the 33-storey Kinabalu Tower in Kota Kinabalu which was completed in 2016.
Tua Pek Kong Temple
Buddhist temple
Tua Peh Kong Temple in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia is the oldest Chinese temple in the town with a 7-storey pagoda with the temple history dates back to 1850s.
Sibu
- Categories: town, big city, and locality
- Location: Sibu Division, Rejang River, Sarawak, Malaysia, Southeast Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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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”
- Malay: “سيبو”
- 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”
- 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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