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A district is usually named after the main town or its administrative capital; for example, the town of Sandakan is the capital of the Sandakan District, as well as the capital of Sandakan Division. Some larger districts are further divided into autonomous sub-districts ( daerah kecil ; literally "small district") before the mukim level.
Miri District is an administrative district in Miri Division, Sarawak, Malaysia covering a total area of 4707 km 2. [1] The Miri District can be divided into Miri City (997.43 km 2 ), [ 4 ] Sibuti sub-district (842.47 km 2 ), and Niah sub-district (2887.21 km 2 ). [ 5 ]
Miri lies within the boundary of the Miri District, which consists of Miri City, Sibuti sub-district, and Niah sub-district, [48] with a total population of 290,274 [49] and total area of 4,707 km 2 (1,817 sq mi). [50] Miri Resident Office and Miri District Office are located at Kingsway Road, Miri City. [51]
Miri is a federal constituency in Miri Division (Miri District), Sarawak, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1990. The federal constituency was created in the 1987 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.
The seat of this division is the city of Miri. Miri Division consists of two districts: Miri and Marudi . Of the 21 seismic events that happened in Sarawak from 1874 to 2011, the majority of them occurred between Niah and Selangau regions, which corresponds to Miri and Bintulu Divisions with Modified Mercalli intensity scale (MMI) of 3.5 to 5.3 ...
This article is part of a series on the Politics of Malaysia Head of State Yang di-Pertuan Agong Ibrahim Iskandar Conference of Rulers Legislature Parliament of Malaysia 15th Parliament Senate (Dewan Negara) President Awang Bemee Awang Ali Basah House of Representatives (Dewan Rakyat) Speaker Johari Abdul Leader of the Government Anwar Ibrahim Leader of the Opposition Hamzah Zainudin Executive ...
In August 2015, Bario sub-district was transferred from Marudi District Council to Miri City Council in view of better infrastructure and accessibility from Miri Airport when compared to Marudi. This addition gives the city an exclave of 4,245 square kilometres, bringing the total area under the city's jurisdiction up to over 5,000 square ...
Within each state the number of constituents in each district is not necessarily equal as Schedule 13, Part 2(c) of the Constitution requires a greater weightage to be given to rural districts. Until 1962 any variation was restricted to no more than fifteen percent from the average number of constituents per district across a state.