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Kinabatangan is a district and town located in Sandakan Division, in the east of Sabah, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. The district office is located in Kinabatangan town. Its population was estimated to be around 146,987 in 2010. Kinabatangan is mostly populated with members of the ' Sungai' tribe, one of the indigenous groups of Sabah. District administration is currently headed by District Officer Mr. Arisin Aripin (2011–present). Economic activities are centred on oil palm plantations, forestry. and wood-based industries.
The nearby Kinabatangan River is an area along which small fragments of lowland riverine rainforest remain: the Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary. The area is wet and humid and the swampy lowlands are home to particularly high densities of Borneo's more emblematic birds and mammals, such as hornbills, Borneo elephants, and the endemic proboscis monkey. Scattered in the area are limestone outcrops, many with caves that harbour large nesting colonies of echolocating swiftlets, as well as endemic limestone-inhabiting flora and fauna, such as Diplommatinidae snails. The largest and best known of these limestone hills is Gomantong.
Kinabatangan also is the large of area under Ramsar site (estuary) with 78 000 hec both combined rivers that as Kinabatangan and Segama was gazetted in 2008 as 'KInabatangan-Segama Wetlands Ramsar site'. The recognition is significant, as the wetlands comprise rarely found coastal mangrove swamps and peat jungles.
Kinabatangan is a federal constituency in Sabah, Malaysia, that has been represented in the Dewan Rakyat since 1971.
The federal constituency was created in the 1966 redistribution and is mandated to return a single member to the Dewan Rakyat under the first past the post voting system.