Kimanis (Chinese: 金馬利) is a
Malaysian town and a
parliamentary constituency of
Papar District on the west coast of
Sabah
Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah has land borders with the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and Indonesia's North Kalima ...
. It is located approximately 45 kilometres south of the city of
Kota Kinabalu
Kota Kinabalu (; formerly known as Jesselton), colloquially referred to as KK, is the state capital of Sabah, Malaysia. It is also the capital of the Kota Kinabalu District as well as the West Coast Division of Sabah. The city is located on the ...
, halfway between
Papar and
Beaufort.
History
Kimanis was part of the
Brunei Sultanate until the 1800s. During the
Brunei Civil War from 1660 to 1673, the Sultan of Brunei at that time,
Sultan Muhyiddin offered Kimanis to the
Sultan of Sulu
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for his assistance in ending the war, but Sulu had dishonored the agreement made and Sultan Muhyiddin retracted all promises made to the Sulu Sultanate. The Sulu Sultanate then issued a false claim that the Sultan of Brunei ceded the entire Sabah to Sulu.
During the reign of
Sultan Abdul Momin, Kimanis was leased as the base for the
American Trading Company of Borneo owned by
Joseph William Torrey,
Thomas Bradley Harris and Chinese investors, which obtained a lease over part of the northern Borneo area from the
Sultanate of Brunei in the late 19th century. The area was then taken over by the British under the administration of
North Borneo. The British built a railway track, the
Kimanis railway station which became one of the stops on the present-day
Sabah State Railway.
In 2006, there was a proposal to relocate the current
Kota Kinabalu International Airport to Kimanis. However, the government decided it was economically more feasible to renovate and extend the present airport. The national oil and gas company,
Petronas constructed a terminal there known as Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (
SOGT) which was completed in 2014, mainly to process and transport oil and gas from the West Coast Field in
South China Sea
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; the terminal is also connected with another oil and gas terminal in Sarawak through the Sabah–Sarawak Gas Pipeline (
SSGP).
In November 2024, it was reported that a new solar glass manufacturing plant would be constructed that would further boost the economy growth in the town and create new jobs in the community.
Local government
Kimanis is within the municipal area of the
Papar District Council (''Majlis Daerah Papar'').
See also
*
KKIA@Kimanis
References
Papar District
Populated places in Sabah
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