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The Beaufort Bridge is a landmark bridge across Padas River in Beaufort District, Sabah, Malaysia. It is maintained by Sabah Public Works Department. It is a truss girder bridge.
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The Interior Division is an administrative division of the state of Sabah, Malaysia. It occupies the southwest portion of Sabah, bordered by the neighbouring state of Sarawak on its west. With an area of 18,298 square kilometres, it covers 24.9% of Sabah's territory and is home to approximately 14.7% of Sabah's total population. The largest town in the Interior Division is Keningau. Other main towns in this division include Beaufort, Kuala Penyu, Sipitang, Tambunan and Tenom.
Beaufort is the capital of the Beaufort District in the Interior Division of Sabah, Malaysia. It was named after former British Governor Leicester Paul Beaufort. Its population was estimated to be around 12,742 in 2010. It is about 90 kilometres south of Kota Kinabalu and about 167 kilometres north of Long Pasia. It has shophouses built high above the roads to avoid the periodic floods of the Padas River. The population of Beaufort is composed mainly of Bisaya, Brunei Malays, Kadazan-Dusuns, Lun Bawang/Lun Dayeh, Muruts and Chinese. Bisaya are the majority ethnic, and the population is scattered around the town. Like other towns in Sabah such as Kota Kinabalu city, Tawau, Papar, Kudat and Tenom, Beaufort was one of the major initial Hakka population centres in Sabah and still has a large Hakka minority.
Crocker Range National Park was established in 1984, although the area had previously been under protection as a forest reserve. It covers the north-south Crocker Range, of 1200-1800 metre mountains in Sabah, Malaysia. In the vicinity of park headquarters, there is a resort that provides accommodation and food services. Other visitors facilities such as an exhibition centre, insectarium, fernarium, observation tower and trekking trail can also be found.
Sabah State Railway (SSR) is a railway system and operator in the state of Sabah in Malaysia. It is the only rail transport system operating on the island of Borneo. The railway consists of a single 134-kilometre line from Tanjung Aru, Kota Kinabalu in West Coast Division to the town of Tenom, in the Interior Division. It was formerly known as North Borneo Railway.
Bisaya is an indigenous people from the northwest coast of East Malaysia on the island of Borneo. Their population is concentrated around Beaufort, Kuala Penyu, Menumbok, Sipitang, Labuan Federal Territory and in Limbang District, Sarawak. The Bisaya tribe has many similarities with the Dusun Tatana tribe, especially in terms of language. It is evident that some of their dialogical language conversations are almost identical if they have a dialogue with each other. Nowadays the Bisaya living in Sabah are Muslim, while the Bisaya living in Sarawak are mostly Christian. In Brunei, they are referred as Dusun, Jati Dusun and Bisaya. The Bisaya is closely related, linguistically, with the Tatana Dusun of Kuala Penyu, Sabah.
Kimanis is a town and also a parliamentary constituency in Papar District, West Coast Division of Sabah, Malaysia. It is located approximately 45 kilometres south of the city of Kota Kinabalu, halfway between Papar and Beaufort.
Membakut is a subdistrict in Sabah, Malaysia. Located in Beaufort District in the Interior Division, Membakut railway station is one of the stops for Sabah State Railway.
Kampung Pimping is a Malay Brunei ethnic's village located in Membakut sub-District of Beaufort District in Sabah, Malaysia.
Datuk Seri Panglima Hajah Azizah binti Mohd Dun is a Malaysian politician. She is the Member of the Parliament of Malaysia for the Beaufort constituency in Sabah, presently representing the Malaysian United Indigenous Party (BERSATU) since 2019. She had earlier left United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) party in the opposition Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition to be an Independent politician in 2018. She is also the former State Minister for Community Development and Consumer Affairs.
The Starcevich Monument or Beaufort Australian Monument is a monument in the town of Beaufort in Sabah, Malaysia dedicated to Tom Starcevich from the 9th Division Army of Australia during the reconquest of the town by the Allied forces on 28 June 1945.
High intensity rainfall since 13 January 2014 caused major flooding across the Interior Division of Sabah including some district in other division such as Menggatal, Penampang and Tuaran. Another follow-up heavy rainfall events caused repeated flash flooding in the interior areas in early February.
Tun Pengiran Haji Ahmad Raffae bin Orang Kaya Pengiran Haji Omar was the second Governor of the Malaysian state of Sabah.
Beaufort railway station is one of four main railway stations on the Western Sabah Railway Line located in Beaufort, Sabah, Malaysia.
Papar railway station is one of four main railway station on the Western Sabah Railway Line located in Papar, Sabah, Malaysia.
Tanjung Aru railway station is one of four main railway station on the Western Sabah Railway Line located in Tanjung Aru, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.
The Beaufort District is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the Interior Division which includes the districts of Beaufort, Keningau, Kuala Penyu, Nabawan, Sipitang, Tambunan and Tenom. The population of Beaufort is composed mainly of Bisaya, Brunei Malays, Kadazan-Dusuns, Lun Bawang/Lun Dayeh, Muruts and Chinese. Bisaya are the majority ethnic, and the population is scattered around the town.The capital of the district is in Beaufort Town.
The Nabawan District is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the Interior Division which includes the districts of Beaufort, Keningau, Kuala Penyu, Nabawan, Sipitang, Tambunan and Tenom. The capital of the district is in Nabawan Town.
The Tenom District is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the Interior Division which includes the districts of Beaufort, Keningau, Kuala Penyu, Nabawan, Sipitang, Tambunan and Tenom. The capital of the district is in Tenom Town.
The Padas River is a river in Interior Division, southwestern Sabah of Malaysia. It has a total length of 120 km (75 mi) from its headwaters in the mountains of northwest Sabah to its outlet at the South China Sea, southwest of Beaufort town. Its source is originated from the mountains in the interior Beaufort, Keningau and Tenom Districts, which part of the Crocker Range system.
Sabah State Library is a state department under the State Ministry of Education and Innovation Sabah which managing every of the public library branches in Sabah of Malaysia. The headquarters is located in Tasik Road, Off Maktab Gaya Road in Luyang of Kota Kinabalu.