Malaysia
Sabah
Tawau Division

Tawau

Tawau is the third largest town of the state of , on the island of . A relatively new town in Malaysia, boomed in early 1980s for its lumber and cocoa farming industry, has become a bustling place, and a transit point to all neighbouring islands such as Sebatik, , , Jolo and Semporna islands.
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  • Type: City with 421,000 residents
  • Description: A town, division and district in Sabah, Malaysia
  • Historically known as: “Tawao”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fo Guang Shan Temple and Tawau Bell Tower.

Buddhist temple
Tawau is a located in Tawau, , . It is one of the overseas temple for the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist organization based in .

Monument
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is the oldest standing structure in Tawau, constructed by the Japanese to commemorate the signing of armistice agreement following World War I when Japan was an ally of Great Britain.

Memorial
Photo: Cccefalon, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a former Japanese in Tawau in the Malaysian state of which has been transformed into a .

Tawau

Latitude
4.2435° or 4° 14′ 37″ north
Longitude
117.8853° or 117° 53′ 7″ east
Population
421,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
IATA airport code
TWU
United Nations Location Code
MY TWU
Open location code
6PPV6VVP+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 676458200
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1734199
Wiki­data ID
Q995163
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tawau” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تاواو”
  • Arabic: “تاوو”
  • Asturian: “Tawau”
  • Belarusian: “Тавау”
  • Bengali: “তাবাউ”
  • Buginese: “Tawau”
  • Buginese: “Tawawu”
  • Buginese: “Tawo”
  • Buginese: “ᨈᨓᨓᨘ”
  • Buginese: “ᨈᨓᨕᨘ”
  • Buginese: “ᨈᨓᨚ”
  • Bulgarian: “Тавау”
  • Cebuano: “Tawau”
  • Chinese: “斗湖”
  • Chinese: “斗湖县”
  • Chinese: “斗湖縣”
  • Danish: “Tawau”
  • Dutch: “Tawau”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تاواو”
  • Esperanto: “Tawau”
  • Finnish: “Tawau”
  • French: “Tawau”
  • Georgian: “ტავაუ”
  • German: “Tawau”
  • Greek: “Ταβάου”
  • Gujarati: “તાવૌ”
  • Hindi: “तवौ”
  • Iban: “Tawau”
  • Indonesian: “Melayu Tawau”
  • Indonesian: “Tawau”
  • Irish: “Tawau”
  • Italian: “Tawau”
  • Japanese: “タワウ”
  • Kadazan Dusun: “Tawau”
  • Kannada: “ತವಾವು”
  • Korean: “타와우”
  • Latvian: “Tavau”
  • Lithuanian: “Tavau”
  • Malay: “Tawau”
  • Marathi: “तावौ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tawau”
  • Norwegian: “Tawau”
  • Persian: “تاوو”
  • Polish: “Tawau”
  • Portuguese: “Tawau”
  • Russian: “Тавау”
  • Scots: “Tawau”
  • Serbian: “Тавау”
  • Sinhala: “ටවෞ”
  • Spanish: “Tawau”
  • Swedish: “Tawau”
  • Tamil: “தாவாவ்”
  • Telugu: “తావౌ”
  • Thai: “ตาเวา”
  • Turkish: “Tawau”
  • Ukrainian: “Тавау”
  • Urdu: “تاواو”
  • Venetian: “Tawau”
  • Vietnamese: “Tawau”
  • Yue Chinese: “斗湖”

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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 “Tawau”. Photo: Adznee Abas, CC BY 2.0.