Tenom District

The Tenom District (Malay: Daerah Tenom) is an administrative district in the Malaysian state of Sabah, part of the Interior Division which includes the districts of Beaufort, Keningau, Kuala Penyu, Nabawan, Sipitang, Tambunan and Tenom. The capital of the district is in Tenom Town.Majority Tenom is Murut while Kadazandusun as well as Lundayeh are minorities in Tenom.

Tenom District Daerah Tenom
District
Tenom District Council office.
Seal
Coordinates: 5°8′00″N 115°57′00″E
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
Division	Interior
Capital	Tenom
Government
• District Officer	Siriman M. F. Basir
Area
• Total	2,409 km2 (930 sq mi)
Population  (2010)
• Total	55,553
Website	www.sabah.gov.my/md.tnm/ www.sabah.gov.my/pd.tnm/

Map of Tenom District

Etymology

The area was first called "Fort Birch" which named after North Borneo Governor Ernest Woodford Birch. Following the completion of the North Borneo Railway Line from Beaufort railway station to Tenom and Melalap railway stations, the place was subsequently renamed as "Tenom" in 1904.

History

The district was established in the 1900s by the North Borneo Chartered Company with first district officer named M.C.M. Weedon. The opening of Tenom by the British began with the opening of Sapong Estate and Melalap Estate.

Demographics

See also: Demographics of Sabah

The population is made up of ethnic groups Murut (52%), Kadazan-Dusun (12%), Chinese (8%), Lun Bawang/Lundayeh (5%) and Malay (4%) together with a small proportion of other ethnic groups such as Indonesians and Filipinos. The majority of nearly 5,000 Chinese, descendants of immigrants from Longchuan in Guangdong, come from the ethnic group of Hakka. The population of the district according to the 2010 census is 55,553 inhabitants.

The population is made up of ethnicities as follows:

Ethnics Group in Tenom District
Ethnics			Percent
Murut			52%
Kadazan-Dusun			12%
Chinese			8%
Lun Bawang / Lundayeh			5%
Malay			4%
Others			19%

Gallery

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  Ar Rahman Mosque.
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  St. Anthony Catholic Church.
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  Tenom Basel Church.
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  Tak Pak Kung Temple.
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  Padas River.

See also

• Districts of Malaysia

Further reading

• 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.

External links

Media related to Tenom District at Wikimedia Commons

• (in Malay) Tenom District Council
• Tenom District Office