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North Borneo
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North Borneo
n
(Placename) the former name (until 1963) of Sabah
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Noun1.North Borneo - a region of Malaysia in northeastern BorneoNorth Borneo - a region of Malaysia in northeastern Borneo
Borneo, Kalimantan - 3rd largest island in the world; in the western Pacific to the north of Java; largely covered by dense jungle and rain forest; part of the Malay Archipelago
East Malaysia - the part of Malaysia that is on the island of Borneo
Sabahan - a Malaysian from Sabah


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Sandakan faces the Sulu Sea and used to be the capital of British North Borneo, but it fell to the Japanese in 1942.
In the petition, Simon also states that apart from the six main issues, "there are many other grievances too lengthy to enumerate here not only in your petitioners' district but in nearly every place or village in British North Borneo not trivial or fancied but real bonafide hardships and injustice which the natives suffer and are afraid to complain of not knowing where to go for assistance and also for fear of the consequences of trying to represent matters elsewhere.
But it was the sultan of Sulu from whom the British North Borneo (Chartered) Company, the trading syndicate that first managed the region, had to obtain concessions --a fact that makes a necessary and relevant point: historically and culturally, native Sabahans perhaps have more in common with those groups in their immediate geographical area than with those in West Malaysia.
 
 
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