Papar

The Papar is an administrative district within the Malaysian country of Sabah, a part of the West Coast Division which includes the districts of Kota Belud, Kota Kinabalu, Papar, Penampang, Putatan, Ranau and Tuaran. The capital of the district is in Papar Town. The call 'Papar' comes from a Bruneian phrase which means 'flat or open land'. As with most of the west coast of Sabah, it become at the start dominated by using the Bruneian sultanate.

Its first nearby leader was Datu Amir Bahar, of Bajau descent. It was then passed to Overbeck and Dent brothers in 1877 by means of the Sultanate of Brunei. The first British officer to serve in Papar become H.L. Leicester, who took workplace in February 1878 aiming to increase Papar's sales. He became replaced by way of Alfred Hart Everett after failing to improve Papar's economic outlook. Tourism is an critical industry in Papar, arguably coming after the agriculture industry.

Many hotels may be observed along the coast. According to the final census in 2010, the populace of Papar district is anticipated to be around 124,420 inhabitants, comprising Bruneian Malay , Kadazan-Dusun and Bajau. A tremendous quantity of Chinese comprising Hakka and Hokkien peoples also exists inside the district. As in different districts of Sabah, there are a massive iety of unlawful immigrants from the nearby southern Philippines, mainly from the Sulu Archipelago and Mindanao, a lot of whom are not protected inside the population facts.