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The earliest recorded history of Sabah being part of any organized civilisation began in the early 16th century during the thriving era of the Sultanate of Brunei. Prior to this, early inhabitants of the land lived in predominantly tribal societies, although such tribal societies have continued to exist until the 20th century. Sabah became a protectorate of the United Kingdom in 1888 and subsequently became a crown colony until 1963, during which time Sabah was widely known as North Borneo. On September 16, 1963, Sabah merged with Malaya, Sarawak and Singapore (left in 1965) to form the Federation of Malaysia.
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The population of Sabah is 3,120,040 as of 2010, and is the third most populous state in Malaysia. Sabah has one of the highest population growth rates in the country as a result of illegal immigration from the Muslim-dominated southern provinces of Philippines. The people of Sabah are divided into 32 officially recognised ethnic groups. The largest indigenous ethnic group is Dusun/Kadazan, followed by Bajau and Murut.
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Sabah's economy was traditionally heavily dependent on export of tropical timber. Ecological efforts to save the remaining natural rainforest areas were done in early 1982 through forest conservation methods however, palm oil has emerged as a choice of farmers to plant as a cash crop. Other agricultural products important in the Sabah economy include rubber and cacao. Tourism is currently the second largest contributor to the economy.
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Sabah is a representative democracy with universal suffrage for all citizens above 21 years of age. However, legislation regarding state elections are within the powers of the federal government and not the state. The Yang Di-Pertuan Negeri sits at the top of the hierarchy followed by the state legislative assembly and the state cabinet (headed by the Chief Minister).
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As a lawyer, Masidi Manjun couldn’t have made a stronger case against relocating Sabah’s endangered orang-utans to the peninsula to entertain tourists. Why, he asks, didn’t God put them there in the first place? The last 45,000 of the primates are found only on Borneo island, the world’s third largest, and the Indonesian Sumatra province. That’s why they have been nicknamed The Wildman of Borneo. But 11,000 of the pongo pygmaeus morio are in Sabah. In the 1980s, there were more than 20,000 of them, but down from 500,000 a century ago. “The state government's stand is very clear,” says the minister of tourism, culture and environment. “We will not relocate our orang-utans.”
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