Sibutu is a municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi

Tawi-Tawi

Tawi-Tawi is an island province of the Philippines located in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao . The capital of Tawi-Tawi is Bongao. The province is the southernmost of the country sharing sea borders with the Malaysian State of Sabah and the Indonesian East Kalimantan province. To the...

, Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

. It is the southernmost municipality of the Philippines. It lies about 14 kilometers east of the coast 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...

, Malaysia.

It was created out of 16 barangays of Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi

Sitangkai, Tawi-Tawi

Sitangkai is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Tawi-Tawi, the southernmost inhabited island of the Philippines. It is called the 'Venice of the Philippines' due to the use of boats as primary transportation, although footbridges connect one house from another...

, by virtue of Muslim Mindanao Autonomy Act No. 197, which was subsequently ratified in a plebiscite held on October 21, 2006.

Political divisions

Barangay	Population (2000)
Ambutong Sapal	1,253
Datu Amilhamja Jaafar	954
Hadji Imam Bidin	1,933
Hadji Mohtar Sulayman	1,218
Hadji Taha	1,239
Imam Hadji Mohammad	1,220
Ligayen	1,999
Nunukan	1,794
Sheik Makdum	1,643
Sibutu (Pob.)	1,144
Talisay	1,336
Tandu Banak	1,863
Taungoh	2,047
Tongehat	1,234
Tongsibalo	1,618
Ungus-Ungus	2,020