Kunak (GPS: 4.68611, 118.25114) is a small town in the Tawau Division of Sabah. It has a population of about 48,600 as of the year 2000. The majority are Bajau and Bugis people. There are also quite a number of Chinese, mostly shopkeepers in Kunak. There is also an Orang Cocos settelement outside the town, near the Giram Oil Palm Estate. They were relocated here from the Cocos Islands in the 1950s.

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