Kuching
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Kuching (/ˈkuːtʃɪŋ/), officially the City of Kuching,[1] is the capital and the most populous city in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia.[2] It is also the capital of Kuching Division. The city is on the Sarawak River at the southwest tip of the state of Sarawak on the island of Borneo and covers an area of 431 km2 with a population about 165,642 in the Kuching North administrative region and 159,490 in the Kuching South administrative region[3][4][5]—a total of 325,132 people.[3] In December 2008, Kuching was the site of one of the 41 regional conferences of the Five Year Plan.[6]
References[edit]
- ↑ "City of Kuching Ordinance" (PDF). Sarawak State Attorney-General's Chambers. 1988. p. 3 (Chapter 48).
- ↑ Oxford Business Group (2011). The Report: Sarawak 2011. Oxford Business Group. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-1-907065-47-7. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
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has generic name (help) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Population Distribution by Local Authority Areas and Mukims, 2010 (page 1 & 8)" (PDF). Department of Statistics, Malaysia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2013.
- ↑ Trudy Ring; Robert M. Salkin; Sharon La Boda (January 1996). International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. Taylor & Francis. pp. 497–498. ISBN 978-1-884964-04-6.
- ↑ Christina Umpi (2011). "A review of the centralized sewerage system for Kuching City" (PDF). Faculty of Engineering. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
- ↑ "Regional Conferences of the Five Year Plan". Bahá'í World News Service. Retrieved December 25, 2020.