Malaysia Travel Site

Sabah is the second largest state in Malaysia and is also known as Negeri di bawah bayu which means The Land Below The Wind. Before the forming of Federation of Malaysia, Sabah was a British crown colony known as North Borneo. It is one of the two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. Situated on the northeast of the island, Sabah is smaller than its sister state, Sarawak, which it borders on the west. The southern part of the island, called Kalimantan, belongs to Indonesia. The state capital is Kota Kinabalu, formerly known as Jesselton.