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| National motto: Land Below the Wind | |||||
| Official language | English | ||||
| Political status | Former Overseas territory of the UK | ||||
| Capital | Sandakan | ||||
| Last Governor | Sir Robert Scott | ||||
| Head of State | Queen Elizabeth | ||||
| Area | 58.8 kmēTo help compare sizes of different geographic regions, we list here areas between 10 kmē (1000 hectares) and 100 kmē (10,000 hectares). See also areas of other orders of magnitude. Areas smaller than 10 kmē 10 kmē is equal to: 3. 86 square miles 1000 hect | ||||
| PopulationFor the use of the word population in statistics, see statistical population. In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of peopleor organisms of a particular speciesliving in a given geographic area. Populations are studied in
- DensityIf you were linked from a country article: the density there is based on land area, see below Population density can be used as a measurement of any tangible item. However it is most frequently applied to living organisms. Population density is usually ex | 285,000 1 096/kmē | ||||
| CurrencyFor exchange rates, see here. A currency is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of goods and services. It is a form of money, where money is defined as a medium of exchange rather than e. a store of value. A currency zone is a country or region | Borneo dollarAlternate uses: Dollar (disambiguation The dollar is the name of the official currency in several countries, dependencies and other regions (see list below). It is represented by the symbol . The name is related to the historic currencies Tolar in Bohemia | ||||
| Time zoneTime Zone was also an old historical computer game. Time zones are areas of the Earth that have adopted the same standard time. Formerly, people used local solar time (originally apparent and then mean), resulting in time differing slightly from town to t | UTCCoordinated Universal Time or UTC also sometimes referred to as Zulu time , the basis for civil time differs by an integral number of seconds from atomic time and a fractional number of seconds from UT1. Time zones around the world are expressed as positi +8 | ||||
| National anthem | God Save the Queen | ||||
| Internet TLD | N/A | ||||
| Calling Code | ? | ||||
British involvement began with the granting of a charter to the British North Borneo Company in August 1881. The settlements were made a protectorate on 12 May 1888, and the island of Labuan attached from 1890 to 1906.
The area was occupied by Japan from January 1942 to 10 June 1945, after which a British military administration was in charge, until 15 July 1946. The colony joined Malaysia on 16 September 1963.