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San·da·kan (s

n-dä

n, sän-dä

kän)

A city of Malaysia in northern Borneo on Sandakan Harbor, an inlet of the Sulu Sea. It was the capital of British North Borneo (now Sabah) until 1947. Population: 392,000.

Sandakan [sɑːnˈdɑːkɑːn]

(Placename) a port in Malaysia, on the NE coast of Sabah: capital (until 1947) of North Borneo. Pop.: 223 432 (1991)

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No references found			Byline: ANI Kuala Lumpur, Sep 15 (ANI): A Malay grandfather has set his heart on entering the Guinness Book of Records with a 342km trek from Sandakan to the state capital by walking backwards. Malay granddad hopes to set Guinness world record with 342km trek by Asian News International Funds were also allocated to build the Sandakan Memorial Park on Borneo Island in 1999, to mark the place where 2,400 Australian and British POWs perished in forced "death marches" at the end of the war. Fallen WWII soldiers still honoured in Asia's cemeteries by AFP / AFP Global Edition Saizal Hussin, an official with the marine police unit in Sandakan, in Borneo's eastern Sabah state, told AFP the eggs worth around 5,200 ringgit (almost 1,500 dollars) were smuggled from the southern Philippines. Malaysian police seize smuggled turtle eggs by AFP / AFP Asian Edition			Sand smelt sand snake Sand snipe sand sole sand spurry Sand star sand stargazer Sand storm Sand sucker Sand swallow sand table sand tiger sand trap Sand tube sand tumor sand verbena sand viper sand wasp sand wedge sand yacht sand-blind Sand-box tree sand-cast Sand-hill crane Sandage Sandakan sandal Sandaled Sandaliform sandalled sandalwood sandalwood family Sandalwood Island sandalwood tree sandarac sandarac tree Sandarach sandbag Sandbagger sandbank sandbar sandbar shark sandberry sandblast sandblaster sandboard sandbox sandbox tree sandboy sandbur Sandburg			Sand-dune Sand-dune Sand-eel sand-faced brick sand-float finish Sand-grain Sand-grain Sand-grain sand-grain volume Sand-hill crane sand-like sand-like sand-like sand-lime brick Sand-paper Sand-paper sand-rubbed finish sand-sawn finish sand-shale ratio sand-struck brick Sand-to-Aggregate ratio Sand/Dust Whirls Sanda Sanda Island Bird Observatory SANDAC Sandag Sandage Sandage Sandage, Allan Rex Sandage, C. H. Sandakan Sandakan Harbour Square Sdn. Bhd. Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia sandal sandal Sandal (disambiguation) Sandal (disambiguation) Sandal (footwear) sandal brick sandal oil Sandal punk Sandal wood Sandal wood Sandal-punk Sandale sandaled sandaled Sandalidae Sandaliform SANDALL sandalled sandalled Sandalov, Leonid Sandalov, Leonid Mikhailovich Sandals Sandals Sandals Royal Bahamian sandalwood sandalwood sandalwood family Sandalwood Island

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