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.
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.
Getting around Padawan municipality the local way
- 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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