Padawan municipality
The Padawan municipality is a collective name given to a subset of the Kuching District area which is not administered locally by the Kuching South City Council and the Kuching North City Hall, formerly known as Kuching Rural district.
The Padawan municipality is a collective name given to a subset of the Kuching District area which is not administered locally by the Kuching South City Council and the Kuching North City Hall, formerly known as Kuching Rural district. It has an area of 1771.3 km2, covering the suburbs of the Kuching Proper subdistrict and Padawan subdistrict. The area is currently administered by the local government named Padawan Municipal Council, based in Kota Padawan, located at 10th mile (16 km) from Kuching city centre. As of 2026, the overall population of entire Padawan municipality area is 358,900 residents.
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Worth seeing in and around Padawan municipality
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Sarawak State Museum
The Sarawak State Museum is the oldest museum in Borneo. It was founded in 1888 and opened in 1891 in a purpose-built building in Kuching, Sarawak.
1.1 km · ethnology museum in Sarawak, Malaysia · Wikipedia - 02Petra Jaya State Mosque
Petra Jaya State Mosque, officially known as Masjid Jamek Negeri Sarawak is the state mosque of Sarawak, located in Petra Jaya, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is also known as Jamek Mosque.
3.6 km · State mosque of Sarawak, Malaysia · Wikipedia - 03Fort Margherita
Fort Margherita is a fort constructed in 1879 by Charles Brooke, the second Rajah of Sarawak, situated in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The fort is an important landmark and monument in Sarawak's history which goes back to the century-old Brooke dynasty of Sarawak.
2 km · fort in Sarawak, Malaysia · Wikipedia - 04St. Joseph's Cathedral, Kuching
The St. Joseph's Cathedral also called Cathedral of Kuching is a religious building that is affiliated with the Catholic Church and is located in the city of Kuching, a Malaysian city situated in the island of Borneo and the state capital of Sarawak.
800 m · church in Kuching, Malaysia · Wikipedia - 05Borneo Cultures Museum
The Borneo Cultures Museum is a museum located in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is the largest museum in Malaysia and the second largest in Southeast Asia.
1 km · cultural museum in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia · Wikipedia - 06Islamic Heritage Museum
The Islamic Heritage Museum is a museum in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is part of the Kuching Heritage Trail.
900 m · museum in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia · Wikipedia - 07New Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Building
The New Sarawak Legislative Assembly Building is the current state legislative complex of Sarawak, in Kuching, Malaysia. It houses the Sarawak Legislative Assembly, where state assemblymen from all over Sarawak meet and preside over debates and passing of laws.
1.9 km · parliament building in Malaysia · Wikipedia - 08Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus
Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus is the foreign branch campus of Swinburne University and is located in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. Established in 2000, Swinburne Sarawak operates as a partnership between the Sarawak State Government and Swinburne Australia.
3.1 km · university · Wikipedia - 09Planetarium Sultan Iskandar
The Sultan Iskandar Planetarium is a planetarium in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is also the first planetarium to be constructed in Malaysia.
1.1 km · science museum in Sarawak, Malaysia · Wikipedia - 10Saint Peter Church (Padungan)
St. Peter's Church (Malay: Gereja St.
2.6 km · church in Kuching, Malaysia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Padawan municipality
- Airports
- Kuching (KCH), 7 km · Supadio (PNK), 216 km
- Johor Bahru → Padawan municipalityTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Kota Kinabalu → Padawan municipalityTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Pontianak → Padawan municipalityTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Padawan municipality
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Padawan municipality. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFor Tanjung Datu National Park, catch a connecting Sarawak Transport Company bus to Sematan where you will have to charter a boat to the park.
- Get inFor those who can afford it, private helicopters and aircraft are available for charter from Hornbill Skyways.
- Get aroundSpeedboats are available for people who wish to go to Taman Negara Bako (National Park), Satang Island and Talang-Talang Island from Santubong.
- Go nextBeaches and jungle trekking easily reached by bus from downtown Kuching.
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Next door to Padawan municipality
- Kuching North City HallCity council in Malaysia3.2 km
- Chinatownneighborhood of Kuching, Malaysia1.6 km