Kudat Division is an administrative division of Sabah

Sabah

Sabah is one of 13 member states of Malaysia. It is located on the northern portion of the island of Borneo. It is the second largest state in the country after Sarawak, which it borders on its southwest. It also shares a border with the province of East Kalimantan of Indonesia in the south...

, east Malaysia, on the island of Borneo

Borneo

Borneo is the third largest island in the world and is located north of Java Island, Indonesia, at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia....

. It occupies the northern tip of Sabah. With an area of 4,623 Square kilometers (6.3% of Sabah's territory), it is the smallest of the five divisions of Sabah.

The main towns are Kudat

Kudat

Kudat is a town in Sabah, East Malaysia, on the northern tip of Borneo island. It serves as the administrative center for the Kudat Division, which includes the towns of Kudat, Pitas, Kota Marudu, and some offshore islands....

, Kota Marudu

Kota Marudu

Kota Marudu is a tiny district of Kudat Division, Malaysia with approximately 19.17 square kilometres of land and a population in 2000 of more than 58,841 people, made up mainly by Dusun , Rungus, Bajau, Orang Sungai, Suluk, and Chinese .Located in the northern region of Sabah, bordered by the...

 and Pitas, which are the administrative centres of the three Districts of the same names. The division had 186,516 inhabitants at the 2010 Census, comprising approximately 6% of Sabah's total population. Kudat Seaport serves the region for mainly commodity transportation. The domestic air strip serves the region in a very minimal way.

Districts

Kudat Division is sub-divided into three administrative districts as follows:

• Kota Marudu (1,917 sq.km) 65,807 inhabitants in 2010
• Kudat (1,287 sq.km) 83,123 inhabitants in 2010
• Pitas (1,419 sq.km) 37,586 inhabitants in 2010