Editing Sabah (section)

=== Administrative division ===
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Sabah consists of five administrative divisions, which are in turn divided into 27 districts. For each district, the state government appoints a village headman (known as ''ketua kampung'') for each village. The administrative divisions were inherited from the provinces of the British administration.<ref>{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Foreign Office|title=British and Foreign State Papers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_9kMAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA237|year=1888|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=237}}</ref> During the British rule, a [[Resident (title)|Resident]] was appointed to govern each division and provided with a palace (''Istana'').<ref>{{cite book |author=K. G. Tregonning |title=A History of Modern Sabah (North Borneo, 1881–1963) |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofmoderns0000treg |url-access=registration |year=1965 |publisher=University of Singapore}}</ref> The post of the Resident was abolished and replaced with district officers for each of the district when North Borneo became part of Malaysia. As in the rest of Malaysia, local government comes under the purview of state government.<ref name="Group"/> However, ever since the suspension of local government elections in the midst of the [[Malayan Emergency]], which was much less intense in Sabah than it was in the rest of the country, there have been no local elections. Local authorities have their officials appointed by the executive council of the state government.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20552/volume-552-I-8058-English.pdf |title=United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Malaysia – Agreement concerning certain overseas officers serving in Sabah and Sarawak. Signed at Kuala Lumpur on 7 May 1965 |publisher=United Nations |date=28 January 1966 |access-date=19 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519032013/https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20552/volume-552-I-8058-English.pdf |archive-date=19 May 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20886/volume-886-I-12699-English.pdf |title=United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Malaysia – Exchange of notes constituting an agreement relating to pensions and compensation for officers designated by the Government of the United Kingdom in the service of the State Government of Sabah and Sarawak. |location=Kuala Lumpur |publisher=United Nations |date=14 December 1972 |access-date=19 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160519032522/https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%20886/volume-886-I-12699-English.pdf |archive-date=19 May 2016 }}</ref>

{{Sabah Labelled Map}}

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align: left; width: 650px;"
|- style="background:#efefef;"
!  !! [[Divisions of Malaysia|Division]] || style="text-align:center;"| [[Districts of Malaysia|Districts]]
!Subdistricts!! Area (km<sup>2</sup>) !! Population (2010)<ref name="total population">{{cite web|url=http://www.statistics.gov.my/portal/download_Population/files/population/05Jadual_Mukim_negeri/Mukim_Sabah.pdf|title=Total population by ethnic group, administrative district and state, Malaysia|publisher=Department of Statistics, Malaysia|year=2010|access-date=25 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120227090345/http://www.statistics.gov.my/portal/download_Population/files/population/05Jadual_Mukim_negeri/Mukim_Sabah.pdf |archive-date=27 February 2012 }}</ref>
|-
! rowspan="8" | 1
| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;" | [[West Coast Division]] || colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | [[Kota Kinabalu District|Kota Kinabalu]]|| rowspan="8" style="text-align:right;" | 7,588 || rowspan="8" style="text-align:right;" | 1,067,589
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Penampang District|Penampang]]
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Putatan District|Putatan]]
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Papar District|Papar]]
|-
| rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Tuaran District|Tuaran]]
| style="text-align:center;"| Tamparuli
|-
|style="text-align:center;"| Kiulu
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Kota Belud District|Kota Belud]]
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Ranau District|Ranau]]
|-
! rowspan="8" | 2
| rowspan="8" style="text-align:center;" | [[Interior Division]] || colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | [[Beaufort District|Beaufort]]|| rowspan="8" style="text-align:right;" | 18,298 || rowspan="8" style="text-align:right;" | 424,534
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Kuala Penyu District|Kuala Penyu]]
| style="text-align:center;"| Menumbok
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Sipitang District|Sipitang]]
| style="text-align:center;"| [[Long Pasia]]
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Tambunan District|Tambunan]]
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Keningau District|Keningau]]
| style="text-align:center;"| Sook
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Tenom District|Tenom]]
| style="text-align:center;"| Kemabong
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Nabawan District|Nabawan]]
| style="text-align:center;"| Pagalungan
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;"|[[Membakut District|Membakut]]
|-
! rowspan="4" | 3
| rowspan="4" style="text-align:center;" | [[Kudat Division]] || rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | [[Kudat District|Kudat]]
| style="text-align:center;"| Banggi|| rowspan="4" style="text-align:right;" | 4,623 || rowspan="4" style="text-align:right;" | 192,457
|-
| style="text-align:center;"| Matunggong
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Pitas District|Pitas]]
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Kota Marudu District|Kota Marudu]]
|-
! rowspan="5" | 4
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | [[Sandakan Division]] || colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | [[Sandakan District|Sandakan]] || rowspan="5" style="text-align:right;" |  28,205 || rowspan="5" style="text-align:right;" | 702,207
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Beluran District|Beluran]]
| style="text-align:center;"| Paitan
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Telupid District|Telupid]]
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Tongod District, Malaysia|Tongod]]
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Kinabatangan District|Kinabatangan]]
|-
! rowspan="5" | 5
| rowspan="5" style="text-align:center;" | [[Tawau Division]] || colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | [[Tawau District|Tawau]] || rowspan="5" style="text-align:right;" | 14,905 || rowspan="5" style="text-align:right;" | 819,955
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Kalabakan District|Kalabakan]]
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Semporna District|Semporna]]
|-
| colspan="2" style="text-align:center;" |[[Kunak District|Kunak]]
|-
| style="text-align:center;" |[[Lahad Datu District|Lahad Datu]]
| style="text-align:center;"| Tungku
|}