Sabah is located in the north of Kalimantan, with an area of 74,500 square kilometers and a coastline of 1440 kilometers. Sabah is located at 1 15.4 degrees east longitude and 1 18.8 degrees north latitude.
The northeast of Sabah is adjacent to the Philippines and faces the Sulu Sea. East and south are Sulawesi and kalimantan island, facing the Sulawesi Sea; It borders Brunei and Sarawak in the southeast and the South China Sea in the west.
The origin of the name Sabah
The early history of Sabah is rather vague, and the Sabah Museum collects some foreign records and archaeological evidence discovered by archaeologists. According to legend, the residents on the west coast of Sabah like to grow a banana called Pisan Sabah, so people call it Sabah.
Another way of saying it is that Sabah is located in the southern part of the typhoon zone in the northern hemisphere, so it is called "the land under the wind", which attracts Muslim businessmen who come to sulu archipelago to stop and avoid the typhoon. In Arabic, "the land under the wind" is called Zir-e Bad, which is pronounced as "Sabah".