沙巴州

英国的北婆罗洲（现今名为沙巴州sabah）先前是在苏禄人统治下的英国直辖殖民地，同时砂劳越（sarawak）曾经是布鲁克家族的私人封地。

British North Borneo ( currently the state of Sabah ) was a British crown colony formerly under the rule of the Sultanate of Sulu , whilst the territory of Sarawak was the personal fiefdom of the Brooke ( white Rajah ) family .

一些人会预订在马来西亚沙巴州或澳大利亚大堡礁申请驾照的特别套餐。

Some will book special packages to apply for diving licenses in Sabah in Malaysia or the Great Barrier Reef in Australia .

沙巴州警察负责人表示，他们认为这伙武装分子是菲律宾人，目前已经离开马来西亚领土。

The head of the police forces in Sabah says the group of armed men , believed to be Filipino , are no longer in Malaysian territory .

旅游文化环境部长曼朱称，这些游客在被允许回国前，将被禁止再次返回沙巴州。

The tourists will be banned from ever coming back to the state before they are allowed to go home , said Tourism , Culture and Environment Minister Datuk Masidi Manjun .

在高峰期，它伸展至超过群岛接壤，西半岛的棉兰老在东部地区，以现代的槟城州沙巴州，在西部和南部，并以巴拉望在北方。

At its peak , it stretched over the islands that bordered the western peninsula of Mindanao in the east , to the modern Malaysian state of Sabah in the west and south , and to Palawan in the north .