Tenom District

Tenom District
Daerah Tenom
District
Tenom District Council
Tenom District Council office.

Seal
Coordinates: 5°8′00″N 115°57′00″E / 5.13333°N 115.95000°E / 5.13333; 115.95000Coordinates: 5°8′00″N 115°57′00″E / 5.13333°N 115.95000°E / 5.13333; 115.95000
Country  Malaysia
State  Sabah
Division Interior
Capital Tenom
Government
 • District Officer Siriman M. F. Basir
Area
 • Total 2,409 km2 (930 sq mi)
Population (2010)
 • Total 55,553
Website www.sabah.gov.my/md.tnm/
www.sabah.gov.my/pd.tnm/

The Tenom District (Malay: Daerah Tenom) 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.

Etymology

The area was first called "Fort Birch" which named after North Borneo Governor Ernest Woodford Birch. Following the completion of the North Borneo Railway Line from Beaufort railway station to Tenom and Melalap railway stations, the place was subsequently renamed as "Tenom" in 1904.[1]

History

The district was established in the 1900s by the North Borneo Chartered Company with first district officer named M.C.M. Weedon. The opening of Tenom by the British began with the opening of Sapong Estate and Melalap Estate.[1]

Demographics

The population is made up of ethnic groups Murut (52%), Kadazan-Dusun (12%), Chinese (8%), Lun Bawang/Lundayeh (5%) and Malay (4%) together with a small proportion of other ethnic groups such as Indonesians and Filipinos. The majority of nearly 5,000 Chinese, descendants of immigrants from Longchuan in Guangdong, come from the ethnic group of Hakka. The population of the district according to the 2010 census is 55,553 inhabitants.[2]

The population is made up of ethincs as follows as:

Ethnics Group in Tenom District
Ethincs Percent
Murut
 
 52%
Kadazan-Dusun
 
 12%
Chinese
 
 8%
Lun Bawang / Lundayeh
 
 5%
Malay
 
 4%
Others
 
 19%

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Sejarah Daerah" (in Malay). Tenom District Office. Archived from the original on 8 November 2017. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
  2. ↑ "Population by ethnic group, Local Authority area and state, Malaysia" (PDF). Department of Statistics, Malaysia. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2017.

Further reading

  • Treacher, W. H (1891). "British Borneo: sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo". University of California Libraries. Singapore, Govt. print. dept. p. 190.
  • Rutter, Owen (1922). "British North Borneo - An Account of its History, Resources and Native Tribes". Cornell University Libraries. Constable & Company Ltd, London. p. 157.
  • Tregonning, K. G. (1965). A History Of Modern Sabah (North Borneo 1881–1963). University of Malaya Press.

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