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Tawau Municipal Council

Tawau Municipal Council is the municipal council which administrates the town and municipalities area of Tawau in the state of Sabah, Malaysia.

Tawau Municipal Council
Tawau Municipal Council · Nikolai Bulykin
The place

Tawau Municipal Council is the municipal council which administrates the town and municipalities area of Tawau in the state of Sabah, Malaysia.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Tawau Municipal Council

4 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.

  1. 01
    Al-Kauthar Mosque

    The Al-Kauthar Mosque, also known as Masjid Besar Tawau, is a Sunni mosque, located in Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia.

    400 m · mosque in Malaysia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tawau Bell Tower

    The Tawau Bell Tower is the oldest standing structure in Tawau, constructed by the Japanese to commemorate the signing of armistice agreement following World War I when Japan was an ally of Great Britain.

    1.1 km · tower in Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tawau Japanese War Memorial

    Tawau Japanese War Memorial is a former Japanese cemetery in Tawau in the Malaysian state of Sabah which has been transformed into a memorial.

    2.8 km · monument · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Fo Guang Shan Temple, Tawau

    Fo Guang Shan Temple Tawau is a Buddhist temple located in Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia. It is one of the overseas temple for the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist organization based in Taiwan.

    500 m · Buddhist temple in Tawau, Malaysia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Tawau Municipal Council

Airports
Kota Kinabalu (BKI), 277 km
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No local-transport research exists yet for Tawau Municipal Council

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 Tawau Municipal Council. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inThe only ferry connection is to the Indonesian city of Nunukan in North Kalimantan province.
  • Go nextNunukan - an island in North Kalimantan, Indonesia, is just one an hour away by ferry.
  • Go nextAs of 2023, no direct ferry connection exists anymore, you have to go to Nunukan first.

From Wikivoyage: Tawau, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Bandar Seri Begawan and Kampong AyerBN

    12 ways of moving, 43 sources

    335 km
  2. 02
    Togian IslandsID

    9 ways of moving, 34 sources

    682 km
  3. 03
    El NidoPH

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    789 km
  4. 04
    DumaguetePH

    9 ways of moving, 46 sources

    821 km
  5. 05
    SiquijorPH

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    836 km

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