Kuala Penyu

This article is about the city. For the state constituency, see Kuala Penyu (state constituency).

Kuala Penyu Pekan Kuala Penyu
Town and district capital
Coordinates: 5°34′12.72″N 115°35′38.39″E
Country	Malaysia
State	Sabah
Division	Interior
District	Kuala Penyu
Population  (2010)
• Total	659

Kuala Penyu Town (Malay: Pekan Kuala Penyu) is the capital of the Kuala Penyu District in the Interior Division of Sabah, Malaysia. Its population was estimated to be around 659 in 2010,^[1] with ethnic Dusun Tatana sub-group forming the largest single ethnic group.

Geography

Kuala Penyu is located on the Klias Peninsula, which was once originally covered with mangrove swamp forests. Much of these mangrove swamps were destroyed by land developers that later realised that the soils were much too acidic to support palm oil.

Climate

Kuala Penyu has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

Climate data for Kuala Penyu
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	29.9 (85.8)	29.9 (85.8)	30.8 (87.4)	31.5 (88.7)	31.6 (88.9)	31.4 (88.5)	31.0 (87.8)	31.0 (87.8)	30.8 (87.4)	30.6 (87.1)	30.4 (86.7)	30.2 (86.4)	30.8 (87.4)
Daily mean °C (°F)	26.8 (80.2)	26.8 (80.2)	27.5 (81.5)	28.0 (82.4)	28.1 (82.6)	28.0 (82.4)	27.5 (81.5)	27.6 (81.7)	27.4 (81.3)	27.3 (81.1)	27.2 (81.0)	27.1 (80.8)	27.4 (81.4)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	23.7 (74.7)	23.8 (74.8)	24.2 (75.6)	24.6 (76.3)	24.7 (76.5)	24.6 (76.3)	24.1 (75.4)	24.2 (75.6)	24.0 (75.2)	24.0 (75.2)	24.0 (75.2)	24.0 (75.2)	24.2 (75.5)
Average rainfall mm (inches)	205 (8.1)	92 (3.6)	122 (4.8)	160 (6.3)	286 (11.3)	294 (11.6)	240 (9.4)	267 (10.5)	334 (13.1)	369 (14.5)	383 (15.1)	269 (10.6)	3,021 (118.9)
Source: Climate-Data.org[2]

Demographics

According to general unrecorded consensus, most Kuala Penyuan are farmers with some younger generations are migrating to towns. It is widely diversified with unrecorded consensus has it that majority are embracing or practising Christianity or Islam, while some are still sticking to animism. As a part of clarification on ethnic group in Kuala Penyu, it's fair enough to mention that every one of them specifically by percentage base on previous official record through consensus report year 2010 was stated 659 peoples, where the most races as follow; ethnic Dusun people of the Dusun Tatana and Bisaya sub-groups, Bruneian Malay, Kedayan, Bajau, Chinese, Indian and others.

Gallery

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  A geographic view of Kuala Penyu.
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  A mosque in Kuala Penyu.
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  Old shoplots in Kuala Penyu.

See also

• Sitompok Bridge

References

1. "Population by ethnic group, Local Authority area and state, Malaysia" (PDF). Department of Statistics, Malaysia. 2010. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
2. "Climate: Kuala Penyu". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 30 October 2020.

External links

Media related to Kuala Penyu at Wikimedia Commons