The Kuching District is an administrative district within

Kuching Division Kuching Division is one of the twelve administrative divisions in Sarawak, Malaysia. Formerly part of what was called the "First Division", it is the center and the starting point of modern Sarawak. Kuching Division has a total area of 4,559.5 ...

Sarawak Sarawak (; ) is a state of Malaysia. The largest among the 13 states, with an area almost equal to that of Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak is located in northwest Borneo Island, and is bordered by the Malaysian state of Sabah to the northeast, ...

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. It is subdivided into two subdistricts which is Kuching Proper and Padawan. The population of the entire District was 617,887 at the 2010 Census. Map of Kuching District, Sarawak

Kuching Proper subdistrict

The Kuching Proper subdistrict is divided into two areas: * the urban area, more commonly known as Kuching City. * the suburbs and rural areas, collectively known as the

Padawan municipality The Padawan municipality is a collective name given to a subset of the Kuching District area which is not administered locally by the Kuching South City Council and the Kuching North City Hall, formerly known as Kuching Rural district. It ha ...

, formerly known as the Kuching Rural District. The headquarters is situated in Kota Padawan (formerly named 10th Mile Bazaar).

Padawan subdistrict

Padawan was proclaimed as a subdistrict on 11 August 1983 and is headquartered in Teng Bukap.

External links

Kuching District Office
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