Sandakan District Daerah Sandakan
District
Sandakan Municipal Council office.
Seal
Coordinates: 5°50′20″N 118°6′55″E / 5.83889°N 118.11528°E / 5.83889; 118.11528
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
Division	Sandakan
Capital	Sandakan
Government
• President (Sandakan Municipal Council)	Benedict Asmat
Area
• Total	2,266 km2 (875 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	396,290
Website	mps.sabah.gov.my/portal/

The Sandakan District (Malay: Daerah Sandakan) is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the Sandakan Division which includes the districts of Beluran, Kinabatangan, Sandakan, Telupid, and Tongod. The capital of the district is in Sandakan City.

There are three members of parliament (MPs) representing the three parliamentary constituencies in the district: Libaran (P.184), Batu Sapi (P.185), and Sandakan (P.186).

Sandakan district is the third largest of Sabah's 25 districts, with 396,290 inhabitants after Kota Kinabalu and Tawau.^[1]

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  Sandakan District Mosque.
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  St. Michael's and All Angels Anglican Church.
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  Sandakan Calvary Charismatic Church.
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  St. Joseph Catholic Church.
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  Sandakan Seventh Day Adventist Church.
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  Puu Jih Shih Temple.
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  Gurdwara Sahib Sandakan.
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  Sandakan city centre.

• Districts of Malaysia

• 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.

Media related to Sandakan District at Wikimedia Commons

• (in Malay) Sandakan Municipal Council

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