Kimanis (Chinese: 金馬利) is a town and also a parliamentary constituency in Papar District, West Coast Division of Sabah, Malaysia. It is located approximately 45 kilometres south of the city of Kota Kinabalu, halfway between Papar and

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History

Kimanis used to be 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 northern Borneo area from the

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in the late 19th century. The area was then taken over by the British under the administration of

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. The British built a railway track; the

Kimanis railway station Kimanis railway station ( ms, Stesen Keretapi Kimanis) is one of eleven minor railway station on the Western Sabah Railway Line located in Kimanis, Papar, Sabah Sabah () is a state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region ...

became one of the stops on the present-day

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. 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,

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construct a terminal there known as Sabah Oil and Gas Terminal (SOGT) that was completed in 2014, mainly to process and transport oil and gas from the West Coast Field in South China Sea; the terminal is also connected with another oil and gas terminal in neighbouring Sarawak through the Sabah–Sarawak Gas Pipeline (SSGP).

Local government

Kimanis is within the municipal area of the Papar District Council (''Majlis Daerah Papar'').

References

Papar District Populated places in Sabah {{Sabah-geo-stub