MY-279572 Sabah on the island of Borneo

Sabah is Malaysia's easternmost state on the island of Borneo. It borders Sarawak on its southwest and it shares a maritime border with the Federal Territory of Labuan on the west and with the Philippines to the north and northeast. In the south, Sabah borders the province of North Kalimantan of Indonesia. Sabah has an autonomous law especially in immigration which differentiates it from the rest of the Malaysian Peninsula states. The capital of Sabah is Kota Kinabalu, formerly known as Jesselton. Sabah is often referred to as the "Land Below The Wind", a phrase used by seafarers in the past to describe lands south of the typhoon belt.

The population of Sabah is 3.1 million as of the last census in 2010 which showed more than a 400 percent increase from the census of 1970. Sabah has one of the highest population growth rates in the country as a result of legal and purportedly state-sponsored illegal immigration and naturalisation from elsewhere in Malaysia, Indonesia and particularly from the Muslim-dominated southern provinces of the Philippines who were awarded Malay stock and granted citizenship. As a result, the Bornean Sabahan, most of whom are non-Muslim, have become minorities in their own homeland and this problem has become the main cause of ethnic tension in Sabah. Source: Wikipedia

This postcard came from Cikgu D. (8 October 2015) Postcrossing.