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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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Sultan Fuad Kiram I of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo concurred, explaining that he was "optimistic that the U.
Sandakan faces the Sulu Sea and used to be the capital of British North Borneo, but it fell to the Japanese in 1942.
Zamboanga City was a former Muslim province and part of the Sultanate of Sulu and North Borneo, but many of its original inhabitants were forced out by Christian settlers.
 
 
 
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