Inanam

Federal State

Inanam is a small town in the state of Sabah in Malaysia. Inanam belongs to the outskirts of the capital Kota Kinabalu and is a sub-district of the management of Dewan Bandaraya Kota Kinabalu ( Kota Kinabalu City Council ) assigned.

Demography

The number of inhabitants of the suburb in 2010 was 3604 inhabitants. The proximity to Kota Kinabalu is reflected in the mixed population. While in previous surveys, the group of Dusun dominated, their proportion in 2010, only 19%. The Bajau dominate with 21% of the population, while the share of the Chinese is 15%. Recently, the city recorded a dramatic increase in population by immigrants from the Philippines and Indonesia. While owns a significant portion of them now, the Malaysian citizenship, yet the proportion of illegal immigrants is high. The naturalization of many immigrants was forcibly and many of them live in cheap apartments, which has provided the Malaysian state.

History

From 1913, the North Borneo Chartered Company, a smaller group Lutheran Hakka Chinese from Canton Province moved here at the instigation of the Basel Mission Society. The total of about 600 people were distributed to Kudat, Menggatal, Telipok and Inanam and supplied with a loan and tools. These beginnings were the basis for the still strong Chinese community of these four villages.

City

The northern bus station in Kota Kinabalu is located in Inanam. An essential part of the urban fringe is dominated by local commercial and small industrial settlement. The center of Inaman consists of traditional style architecture of the Dusun and pervades with orchards and small natural rubber plants of the foothills.

The city is connected via Jalan Tuaran and Jalan Lintas with 10 kilometers away in the center of Kota Kinabalu. The next Subdivision is Menggatal.