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Kimanis
Colonial-era shoplots in Kimanis town
Kimanis
Coordinates: 5°37′N 115°53′E / 5.617°N 115.883°E / 5.617; 115.883
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah

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 Beaufort.

History

Kimanis was part of the Brunei Sultanate until the 1800s. During the Brunei Civil War which broke out from 1660 to 1673, the Sultan of Brunei at that time, Sultan Muhyiddin offered Kimanis to the Sultan of Sulu for his assistance in ending the war, but Sulu had dishonored the agreement made and Sultan Muhyiddin retract 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 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 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 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).

In November 2024, it was reported that a new solar glass manufacturing plant will be constructed that will 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

1. Yura Halim (2017). Mahkota Berdarah. Dewan Bahasa Bandar Seri Begawan. pp. 82–.
2. Graham Saunders (5 November 2013). A History of Brunei. Routledge. pp. 84–. ISBN 978-1-136-87394-2.
3. "No such problem if airport shifted to Kimanis: PBS" Archived 26 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Daily Express News. 24 March 2006.
4. The Report: Sabah 2011. Oxford Business Group. pp. 70–. ISBN 978-1-907065-36-1.
5. Online, N. S. T. (13 November 2024). "SBH Kibing inks RM7.2 billion deal for solar glass plant in Kimanis | New Straits Times". NST Online. Retrieved 13 November 2024.

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