Inanam is a suburb and sub-district of

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Sabah Sabah () is a state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indonesia to the south. The Federal Territory ...

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. It is situated 10 kilometres from the city centre.

History

OKK Majimbun Majangkin is known as one of the key player in Inanam development. During the

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...

, Inanam is also the base where the Kinabalu Guerillas led by

Albert Kwok Albert Kwok, with the full name Albert Kwok Fen Nam (; born 1921 in Kuching, Sarawak; died on 21 January 1944 in Petagas, Putatan, Sabah) was a leader of a resistance fighter known as the "Kinabalu Guerrillas" during the Japanese occupation of ...

actively operating to fight the Japanese.

Demography

The town population consists of mainly the

Dusun Dusun is the collective name of a tribe or ethnic and linguistic group in the Malaysian state of Sabah of North Borneo. Collectively, they form the largest ethnic group in Sabah. Dusun has been recognised as among the indigenous community of ...

, and the Chinese who operate the shops. Of late however there is a large influx of immigrants both from the southern

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and

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. Many of them are illegals and live in squatters. A considerable number of them however were controversially

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and relocated into low-cost housing settlements provided by the Malaysian government.

Accessibility

Kota Kinabalu City (North) Bus Terminal is located in Inanam which become part of the BRT Kota Kinabalu.

Economy

A substantial part of the sub-district near the town centre consists of a light industrial area. Towards the interior, traditional Dusun villages scatter the hill slopes, with fruit orchards and rubber

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Education

Primary school

#SK Tobobon #SK Ruminding #SK Poring-Poring #SK Pomotodon #SK Malawa #SK Kionsom Inanam #SK Inanam Laut #SK Gudon Menggatal #SK Bantayan #SK Babagon Toki #SJK (C) Yick Nam

Secondary school

#SMK Tebobon #SMK Inanam #SMK (A) Inanam

References

Populated places in Sabah Kota Kinabalu {{Sabah-geo-stub